Elaine Pagels, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Elaine Pagels

American writer

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1943

Place of Birth: Palo Alto, California, United States

Profession: historian, theologian, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), is an American religious historian.
She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism. Her best-selling book The Gnostic Gospels (1979) examines the divisions in the early Christian church, and the way that women have been viewed throughout Jewish history and Christian history.
Modern Library named it as one of the 100 best books of the twentieth century.