The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The first major and eminently readable book on gnosticism benefiting from the discovery in 1945 of a collection of Gnostic Christian texts at Nag Hammadi in Egypt.

- The New York Times Book Review

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	The Gnostic Gospels	Mass Market Paperback	1180175		$4.32
	The Gnostic Gospels	Paperback	2162194	$3.69	$0.21
	The Gnostic Gospels	Kindle Edition	30431	$9.51		2004
	Gnostic Gospels	Paperback	2394658		$8.08	2006
	The Gnostic Gospels	Paperback	4849367	$137.00	$1.44	1990
	The Gnostic Gospels: A Startling Account of the Meaning of Jesus and The Origin of Christianity Based on Gnostic Gospels and Other Secret Texts	Audio CD	2485130	$36.46	$11.17	2006
	The Gnostic Gospels	Hardcover	2672654	$8.00	$2.23
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	[(The Gnostic Gospels)] [By (author) Elaine Pagels] published on (September, 1989)	Paperback	306211	$20.54	$5.03	1989
	The Gnostic Gospels	Paperback	3444812	$5.00	$0.01	1980
	The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: Heracleon's Commentary on John (Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series)	Paperback	1327151	$22.00	$13.55	1989
	The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics	Paperback	142071	$5.14	$1.99	1996
	The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics	Kindle Edition	59816			2011
	The Origin of Satan	Hardcover	781030	$10.10	$2.00	1995
	The Origin of Satan	Paperback	15695370		$2.99	1997
	Gnostic Gospels, the (Lib)(CD)	Audio CD	7734823		$7.75	2006
	The Johannine Gospel in gnostic exegesis: Heracleon's commentary on John (Society of Biblical Literature. Monograph series)	Hardcover	2455490	$109.98	$12.00
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	The Gnostic Gospels	Hardcover	99948	$45.90	$6.39	1979
	The Origin of Satan	Paperback	15849066		$5.00
	The Gnostic Gospels	Paperback	66897	$8.00	$1.38	1989
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