The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read the Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels, a surprisingly accessible book about the discovery of documents from the very foundation of Christianity with a surprisingly unorthodox viewpoint. And, of course, we shirk the opportunity to learn something in favor of making terrible gnu puns.

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Stuff we Mentioned

• New Yorker article on Elaine Pagels

• Gary Gnu

• The discovery of the Gnostic Gospels

• The sum of all knowledge about Gnosticism

• Gnostic Music! Current 93 album based on Thunder, Perfect Mind)

• Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen

• Fatima Prophecies

• Elaine Pagels' New Book - Why Religion?

• Revelations by Elaine Pagels

• Television - Tom Verlaine)

• Maus by Art Speigelmann

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