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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

The Gnostic Paul

Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters

by Elaine Pagels

A study of how second-century Valentinian Gnostics read Paul's letters as containing secret wisdom. Pagels reconstructs their commentary letter by letter and shows why both Gnostics and their opponents claimed Paul as their own.

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