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The Historical Setting of the Gospel of Judas and Its Presentation to a Broad Public

2010

When in April 2006 the Gospel of Judas was presented to the world in a provisional Coptic text and a first translation into English on the website of the National Geographic Society, the first comments on this apocryphon were highly ambiguous. On the one hand scholars immediately recognized it as a Gnostic text comparable to the writings found in Nag Hammadi, and considered that this might well be the Gospel of Judas referred to by Irenaeus. More specifically, its connection with Sethian texts was soon established, and for these reasons the newly found document was dated to the early or mid second century. On the other hand, however, it was also suggested that this document contained historically reliable traditions on Judas‟s alleged treason and Jesus‟ death, and that through this Gospel our views of these historical persons would have to be radically modified. This suggestion was spread by journalists who were no specialists in early Christianity, but their articles were inspired ...

2013 The Dispositio of the Gospel of Judas

Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 17,1 , 2013

Upon first reading, the Gospel of Judas gives the impression that it is a work composed by an author who was not greatly concerned with organizational matters. However, when we look more closely at it, we are obliged to rethink this first impression. Patterns in the recurrence of themes and language in the Gospel of Judas show the structural importance of a concentric series of inclusions; when these inclusions are taken into account, we see that the work is organized around two sections, with each section echoing and clarifying the other. This bipartite dispositio (to use a term from contemporary Greco-Roman rhetorical analysis) coheres perfectly with the text's content, in which the holy generation is opposed to mortal humans and in which a great deal of use is made of antithesis. The bipartite structure, the thematic dichotomy between the two groups, and the use of antithesis as a technique all work together to encourage readers to choose between the two options offered to them.

The Gospel of Judas, edited by Johanna Brankaer

Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies, 2021

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The Gospel of Judas: A Parody of Apostolic Christianity

2008

On the evening of 9 April 2006, the National Geographic Society aired a documentary, The Gospel of Judas: The Lost Version of Christ's Betrayal. The movie showed the scholars who were members of the National Geographic team tell their stories about the recovery, reconstruction and interpretation of the 'found' Gospel of Judas. They said that this gospel presents us with a very different story of Judas Iscariot, one in which Judas is the hero, not the villain. As Jesus' 'soul-mate', Judas was asked by Jesus to kill him in order to release Jesus' spirit and bring about salvation. This opinion formed the basis for the team's book, The Gospel of Judas, released on the same day. In many ways, this line of interpretation reclaimed and affirmed the opinion of Epiphanius who said that Judas, in his gospel, betrayed Jesus because he was a strong Power from above whose knowledge was supreme. Judas knew if he betrayed Jesus, that Christ's crucifixion would d...