title: The Gnostic Gospels
author:  Elaine Pagels 
description: "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<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>
zlib_text: Also by Elaine Pagels
  THE JOHANNINE GOSPEL IN GNOSTIC EXEGESIS
  THE GNOSTIC PAUL: GNOSTIC EXEGESIS
  OF THE PAULINE LETTERS
  THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS
  BEYOND BELIEF: THE SECRET GOSPEL OF THOMAS
  
  FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 1989
  Copyright © 1988 by Elaine Pagels
  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published
  in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and
  simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally
  published, in hardcover, by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1988.
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Pagels, Elaine H., 1943–
  Adam, Eve, and the serpent / Elaine Pagels.—1st Vintage Books ed.
  p. cm.
  eISBN: 978-0-307-80735-9
  1. Sex—Biblical teaching. 2. Bible. N.T.—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 3. Sex—Religious
  aspects—Christianity—History of doctrines—Early church, ca. 30–600. I. Title.
  BS2545.S36P34    1989
                               241′.66′09015—dc20  