Article: BEYOND BELIEFBOOKS / Nonfiction

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BEYOND BELIEF The Secret Gospel of ThomasBy Elaine Pagels.241 pages. $24.95. Random House. Reviewed by Frank Kermode***Elaine Pagels's ''Gnostic Gospels,'' which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award in 1980, introduced readers to the discovery in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Egypt of an extraordinary cache of ancient papyrus books. Written in Coptic, the documents expounded what appeared to be secret and deviant versions of early Christian teaching. Now, after more years of research, Pagels offers a kind of supplement,

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