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Elaine Pagels

1943 - Today

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Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), is an American historian of religion. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Elaine Pagels is the 541st most popular historian (down from 532nd in 2024), the 13,175th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,333rd in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Elaine Pagels ranks 541 out of 561. Before her are Anthony Grafton, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Iain Pears, Bernard Bailyn, James H. Billington, and Jonathan Riley-Smith. After her are Gerhard Weinberg, Christopher Clark, Gábor Kósa, Peter Heather, Oliver Grau, and Andreas Umland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Elaine Pagels ranks 687. Before her are Vince Cable, Robert J. Bentley, Randy Bachman, Rose Tremain, Alan Rollinson, and Rosemarie Frankland. After her are Valerie Leon, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Padma Subrahmanyam, Bill Gosper, Howard Wilkinson, and Wayne Allard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elaine Pagels ranks 13,179 out of 20,380. Before her are George Chandler (1898), Joakim Noah (1985), Vonda Shepard (1963), Elizabeth Lail (1992), Ron Wyden (1949), and Caesar Rodney (1728). After her are Ann Gillis (1927), Elvis Crespo (1971), Jean Wallace (1923), Gil Shaham (1971), Bob Denver (1935), and Patrick Schwarzenegger (1993).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Elaine Pagels ranks 51. Before her are Richard Hofstadter (1916), Francis Parkman (1823), Anthony Grafton (1950), Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942), Bernard Bailyn (1922), and James H. Billington (1929). After her are Allan Lichtman (1947), Stephen Kotkin (1959), Victor Davis Hanson (1953), and Kim Ryholt (1970).

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