Elaine H. Pagels, Ph.D.,is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She received her B.A. and an M.A. from Stanford University; was a Knox Fellow from Harvard University at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University; and received her Ph.D. from Harvard. Dr. Pagels has published more than 45 articles and worked on Coptic texts for the Nag Hammadi Library. Her recent books include The Origin of Satan (New York: Random House, 1995); Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (New York: Random House, 1988); and The Gnostic Gospels (New York: Random House, 1979), which received the National Book Critic Circle Award and the National Book Award. Dr. Pagels has served on the Bioethics Committee, NeoNatal Intensive Care Unit, at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. She has been the recipient of the Rockefeller Fellowship (1978-79), the Guggenheim Fellowship (1979 1980), and the MacArthur Prize Fellowship (1980-1985).