A very interesting article on the life and career of the scholar of Gnosis, Elaine Pagels.
Elaine Pagels won popular and scholarly acclaim for her revolutionary interpretation of the early Christian Church in “The Gnostic Gospels.” Then unthinkable personal tragedy led her to the subject of a new book: What is Satan?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/04/03/the-devil-problem