Reading Judas, Elaine Pagels
Reading Judas, Elaine Pagels
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Reading Judas
The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity

Author: Elaine Pagels, Karen L. King

Narrator: Karen L. King

Unabridged: 3 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 03/06/2007

Synopsis

The instant New York Times bestseller interpreting the controversial long-lost gospel

The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas is a source of fascination for biblical scholars and lay Christians alike. Now two leading experts on the Gnostic gospels tackle the important questions posed by its discovery, including: How could any Christian imagine Judas to be Jesus' favorite? And what kind of vision of God does the author offer? Working from Karen L. King's brilliant new translation, Elaine Pagels and King provide the context necessary for considering its meaning. Reading Judas plunges into the heart of Christianity itself and will stand as the definitive look at the gospel for years to come.

About The Author

Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of several books, including Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, and The Gnostic Gospels, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. Professor Pagels lives in Princeton, New Jersey.Karen L. King is an American academic specializing in Gnosticism and early Christianity. She was the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School from 1998 to 2008, and succeeded Harvey Cox in 2009 to become the first woman appointed to that school’s distinguished Hollis Chair, the oldest endowed chair in the United States.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William2 on August 22, 2021

I don't think Karen L. King has been good for Elaine Pagels's prose. I strained thoughout to hear Pagels' distinctive voice and could never quite locate it. Instead the tone seems a little rushed, a little shrill almost, as opposed to Pagels's much more relaxed and considered pace. Second, while the......more

Goodreads review by robin on October 31, 2024

Beyond Anger To Revelation In April 2006, the National Geographic Society published an ancient text, the "Gospel of Judas" that had been discovered in the mid-1970s in Egypt. The original Greek text dates from about 150 A.D., although the version recovered was a Coptic translation written several hun......more

Goodreads review by Lia on January 30, 2019

The authors nicely summarize the Gospel of Judas for us: Although it is a bit speculative, to us the point in the Gospel of Judas seems to be that Jesus represents the true nature of all human beings who worship the true God. Their fleshly bodies are real; they suffer and die; but at the same time,......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on January 20, 2021

The authors of this book have a lot of mistaken ideas, and a great deal of those problems relate to the problem of authority. The authors are of the mistaken opinion that they and other self-professed biblical scholars have authority to weigh in on the Bible as judges and authorities as to what is r......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on June 18, 2012

This book was overall pretty interesting. I guess, though, I should at least put forth some of my biases: I enjoy the complications in scholarly works on early Christianity, I really enjoy some of the alternative Christianity histories, and I have an affinity toward Pagels work. That being said, I th......more

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