Understanding the Gnostic GOSPEL of JUDAS

As many of you probably know already, the word gospel means "good news." But what should we make of the discussion about the Gospel of Judas, that is, "the good news" of Judas, since its publication in 2006? How can there be any good news about Judas Iscariot, the ultimate betrayer, the one who handed Jesus over to his enemies? Yet, here it is, the Gospel of Judas. Let us take a closer look at it.

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Footnotes for Web Post
1. The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament, ed. Bart D. Ehrman and Zlatko Pleše (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 201.
2. April DeConick, The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says (New York: Continuum, 2007), 22-42.
3. Ehrman and Pleše, 205; for the original, see Codex Tchacos page 33, lines 1-18.
4. Ehrman and Pleše, 201-204.
5. Codex Tchacos page 44, lines 20-21 and page 56, lines 17-18, transcribed by Kasser et. al.
6. Ehrman and Pleše, 208.
7. DeConick, 77.
8. Ehman and Pleše, 212.
9. DeConick, 89.
10. Ehrman and Pleše, 202.

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