Elaine Pagels
Auteur de Les Evangiles Secrets
A propos de l'auteur
Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels. Pagels graduated from Stanford University receiving a B.A. in 1964 and an M.A. in 1965. She afficher plus received a Ph.D in religion from Harvard University in 1970. She is the author of The Gnostic Gospels (1979), which won the National Book Award (Religion 1980) and the National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism 1979). Pagels is also the author of Adam, Eve and the Serpent (1988), The Origin of Satan (1995), Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (2003), Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (2007), and Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation (2012). (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Œuvres de Elaine Pagels
Gnostic and Orthodox Views of Christ's Passion: Paradigms for the Christian's Response to Persecution? 2 exemplaires
I will lift up mine yes. 2 exemplaires
The Gospels of Thomas and Mary Magdalene 2 exemplaires
'The Politics of Christianity' in edge.org, 2003 1 exemplaire
'The Gospel of Judas' in edge.org, May 2007 1 exemplaire
Elaine Pagels 1 exemplaire
The gnostic Jesus and early Christian politics 1 exemplaire
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Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism (Studies in Antiquity & Christianity) (1988) — Contributeur — 31 exemplaires
Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism (2008) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 28 exemplaires
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A most reliable witness : essays in honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer (2015) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
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- Nom canonique
- Pagels, Elaine
- Nom légal
- Pagels, Elaine Hiesey
- Date de naissance
- 1943-02-13
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Palo Alto, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Études
- Stanford University (B.A.|1964|M.A.|1965)
Harvard University (Ph.D.|1970) - Professions
- professor
- Relations
- Pagels, Heinz R. (husband)
Hiesey, William (father) - Organisations
- Barnard College
Princeton University - Prix et distinctions
- MacArthur Fellowship (1981)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1979)
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1978)
National Book Award (1980)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1980)
Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities (2012) - Courte biographie
- Elaine Pagels (1943- ), American professor of religion and Gnosticism scholar, born Elaine Hiesey
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Gnostic Gospels Group Read à 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Avril 2012)
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What's really excellent, though, is the second portion of the book, consisting of King's translation of Judas accompanied by a fairly comprehensive end-note commentary on the text by King (substantially longer than the scriptural text itself), and here I'd give it at least 4½**** or even 5*****
Judas would have been written in the mid-second century. It couldn't have been later because it is one of the heterodox scriptures condemned by St Irenaeus of Lyon in Against Heresies {Wikipedia}, which itself was written around 180CE, Irenaeus dying a martyr just about the turn of the century; and it definitely postdates the canonical gospels (Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John) because it was written in response to and criticism of these canonical gospels.
There seems to be some expectation that Judas could be an antidote to the sometime anti-Semitism of the canonical gospels (especially John), but that's not the case. In fact, there's no reference in Judas to a Roman execution of Jesus – the Jewish leadership alone is implicated. Judas also might prove offensive to current-day readers for its snide references to homosexuality.
The significance of Judas is that it condemns orthodoxy's glorification of martyrdom, equating this to "blood sacrifice"; rejects atonement theology (Jesus died for the sins of the world), seeing this as a hideous "child sacrifice" theology; and denies a physical, bodily resurrection of the dead. Instead, resurrection is a spiritual resurrection (which isn't necessarily entirely contrary to the resurrection theology of the genuine Pauline letters) – but this isn't docetism {Wikipedia}, which denies the humanity of Jesus or of the suffering of his human body.
It would be too lengthy and complicated a discussion to completely summarize King's treatment of Judas. Suffice it to say that this heterodox scripture treats the "traitor" apostle as the only one who really "got it right" – he "betrays" Jesus at Jesus's own direction in order that Jesus can fulfill his destiny of dying to give an example of exactly how a spiritual resurrection will occur. Those who truly understand this message and live a life consistent with it will themselves be spiritually resurrected while the rest of humanity will simply die (i.e., no eternal lake of hellish fire, or whatever).
Judas, though, seems not to reject martyrdom entirely. Yes, die if need be as a result of your spreading the message of Jesus (Judas himself is finally stoned by the other apostles); but don't expect it to be an "express ticket" to heaven or to any bodily resurrection, don't claim that "the blood of martyrs is the seed of the church," and reject atonement theology.… (plus d'informations)