Biographie d'Elaine Pagels
After receiving her doctorate from Harvard University in 1970, Elaine Pagels taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she chaired the department of religion. She is now the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. As well as participating with other scholars in editing several of the texts from Nag Hammadi, Professor Pagels is the author of The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis, The Gnostic Paul : Gnostic Exegesis: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters, Adam, Eve and the Serpent, the origin of Satan and most recently Beyond Belief : The Secret Gospel of Thomas. Professor Pagels was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981. She lives and teaches in Princeton, New Jersey.