Reading Judas

Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion Emeritus at Princeton University. She is the author of several books, most recently the New York Times bestseller Miracles and Wonder. Some of her other works include the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief, and The Gnostic Gospels, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. She 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.