ABC’s Primetime and The New York Times have both released stories on the newly surfaced, 1,700 year-old Gospel of Judas. For years scholars have hypothesized that Judas wrote his own gospel, but that the early church had banned the document stating it was blasphemy.
However, a farmer in England found an ancient, leather-bound text in a cave. The text asserts that Jesus asked Judas to betray him, and they have a subsequent discussion of the ramifications of that act.
"The Gospel of Judas does suggest that the betrayal of Jesus is not a reprehensible act, not the act of a traitor, you know, the worst villain in the history of the world, but that it's a secret mystery between him and Jesus," said Elaine Pagels, a professor at Princeton University and one of the world's foremost experts on ancient religious texts
According to Terry Garcia, an executive vice president of the National Geographic Society, “The codex has been authenticated as a genuine work on ancient Christian apocryphal literature.”
Carbon dating has authenticated the Coptic papyri, dating it between the third and forth century. It is believed that it is a copy of a much older text.
Excerpt from the Gospel, courtesy of The New York Times (pdf)
The Gospel of Judas from National Geographic
However, a farmer in England found an ancient, leather-bound text in a cave. The text asserts that Jesus asked Judas to betray him, and they have a subsequent discussion of the ramifications of that act.
"The Gospel of Judas does suggest that the betrayal of Jesus is not a reprehensible act, not the act of a traitor, you know, the worst villain in the history of the world, but that it's a secret mystery between him and Jesus," said Elaine Pagels, a professor at Princeton University and one of the world's foremost experts on ancient religious texts
According to Terry Garcia, an executive vice president of the National Geographic Society, “The codex has been authenticated as a genuine work on ancient Christian apocryphal literature.”
Carbon dating has authenticated the Coptic papyri, dating it between the third and forth century. It is believed that it is a copy of a much older text.
Excerpt from the Gospel, courtesy of The New York Times (pdf)
The Gospel of Judas from National Geographic
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