Elaine Pagels

"Reading Judas"

April 5, 2007

7:30 p.m. Reynolds Alumni Center

Pagels is the author of The Gnostic Gospels, which won both the National Book Critic's Circle Award and the National Book Award and was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best books of the 20th Century. Her other books include The Origin of Satan, Adam, Eve and the Serpent, and, most recently, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas. The Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, Elaine Pagels was awarded the Rockefeller, Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships in three consecutive years. She has been profiled in Time, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Mirabella and The New Yorker, and in 2004 she was a featured commentator on the ABC special program, Jesus, Mary, and Da Vinci. The event is sponsored by the MU Center for Literary Arts.