
Gospel of Judas -- category
Who wrote the Gospel of Judas?
The Gospel of Judas was found in the late 1970s in a cave near El-Minya, Egypt. This self-proclaimed gospel consists of 13 pages of a 66-page codex containing other writings yet to be published. After extensive tests of the papyrus, the manuscript dates to the third century AD. It was written in ancient Coptic and, like the Nag Hammadi Library, was a translation from Greek. The teachings of Gnosticism are clearly present: classic spirit/body dualism, salvation by secret knowledge, and the belief that the material world is evil. The early church tells us the gospel of Judas was written by a Gnostic sect called the Cainites. | by chickashanews :: 2006-06-09 |
Not so secret gospels - Secret Gospel of Judas
Once the dusty preserve of theologians and historians, the success of the Da Vinci code has turned an ancient religious document into a major publishing event. When the antiquities dealer bought an ancient papyrus book in April 2000 containing the Secret Gospel of Judas, he could not even find a buyer. What we do know is that the Gospel of Judas was condemned in 180AD by Irenaus the Bishop of Lyons. So it existed by then and had made its way from Egypt to Gaul. | by bbc :: 2006-04-07 |
Gospel of Judas has Church worried
The Gospel of Judas - said to be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of modern times - is about to be published amid explosive controversy. Scholars have translated 26 pages of a crumbling ancient text that purports to tell the story of Jesus's last days from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, a man reviled for almost 2000 years. Sensationally, the manuscript portrays him not as a villain but as a hero and Christ's favoured disciple. It claims to repeat conversations between the two men and shows that in betraying Christ, Judas was fulfilling a divine mission. | by adelaidenow :: 2006-03-13 |