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Elaine Pagels

American scholar of religion at Princeton who wrote The Gnostic Gospels — the most widely read popular account of the Nag Hammadi texts — and Beyond Belief, examining the Gospel of Thomas — making Gnostic Christianity available to general audiences.

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Gilles Quispel

Dutch scholar of religion and Gnosticism at Utrecht who was involved in the discovery and initial publication of the Nag Hammadi texts — and who had a long personal correspondence with Jung about Gnosticism and its psychological significance.

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