Does anyone know about the so called gospel of Judas?

Question

I wish to know more about the gospel of Judas.

Answer 1

A 1700-year-old papyrus manuscript suggests history has misjudged the greatest villian of Christianity: Judas was under orders when he betrayed Jesus.

The only known surviving copy of the lost gospel of Judas portrays the treacherous disciple as a loyal deputy acting at the behest of his leader.

In fact, Judas sold Jesus out as an act of obedience not treachery, thereby fulfilling his theological destiny. Key passages from the third or fourth century Coptic manuscript were released by its publisher, the National Geographic Society, last night, a week before Easter, the holiest time of the Christian calendar.

The society, which is rumoured to have purchased publishing rights for more than $1 million, plans magazine articles, television specials and book deals amid concerns about the ethics of ancient acquisitions.

The society's panel of scholars has submitted the document to radiocarbon dating, ink analysis and spectral imaging and has declared it authentic.

The gospel of Judas is believed to be the work of gnostic Christians, a stream of Christian thinking declared heretical by early church fathers. It is a companion text to ancient scriptures unearthed in 1945, which have formed the basis of some assertions in Dan Brown's controversial bestseller The Da Vinci Code.

Australian biblical scholars said the document would be likely to provide a window on early Christianity, but did not threaten Christian teachings because while it was old, it did not date to the time of the Bible's Gospels.

"The text bears witness that to some people Judas was a misunderstood character," said Dr Malcolm Choat, a specialist in early Christianity at Macquarie University. "It fills in the picture but it doesn't make the picture."

But the Coptic Orthodox Church dismissed the document as "non-Christian babbling resulting from a group of people trying to create a false 'amalgam' between the Greek mythology and Far East religions with Christianity … They were written by a group of people who were aliens to the main Christian stream of the early Christianity," the church's theological leader, Metropolitan Bishoy, told the Herald.

"These texts are neither reliable nor accurate Christian texts, as they are historically and logically alien to the main Christian thinking and philosophy of the early and present Christians."

The Judas gospel is a third or fourth century Coptic manuscript discovered in the desert near El Minya, Egypt, in the 1970s. It was sold to a dealer in illicit antiquities and languished in a safe deposit box in the US before falling into the hands of a Swiss foundation.

The Bible says Judas betrayed Jesus to the Romans for a purse of 30 pieces of silver in the Garden of Gethsemane. He later hung himself.

According to limited extracts of the gospel of Judas offered to the Herald, Jesus explains Judas his role in the crucifixion: "You will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me."

In other key passages released to the public, Jesus confides: "Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom. It is possible for you to reach it, but you will grieve a great deal."

For his role Judas would be despised by the other disciples: "You will be cursed by the other generations and you will come to rule them." The gospel ends: "They [the arresting party] approached Judas and said to him. 'What are you doing? You are Jesus's disciple'. Judas answered them as they wished. And he received some money and handed over to him.

As well as the gospel of Judas, the newly discovered 66-page document also contained a text titled James, a letter of Peter to Philip, and a fragment of a fourth text scholars are provisionally calling Book of Allogenes.


Do a Google Search the History or Discovery Channel had a special on Judas you might be able to buy a DVD from them it was very interesting : )

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 2

The gospel used to be written a while earlier than a hundred and eighty, for the reason that it used to be recounted by way of Irenaeus. This reproduction within the museum is carbon-dated to the 2d century. "Gospel" is an Old English phrase that's a translation of the Greek "evangelion" which conveniently way Good News. That is the identify of the literary style of the quite a lot of gospels. It is close to obviously now not the paintings of Judas himself, for the reason that the subjects and suggestions underlying it mirror transparent Gnostic and NeoPlatonic orignis, and Judas lived good earlier than those trends in Christianity.

Answer 3

The Gnostic Gospel of Judas Didymos, also known as Thomas ( which means 'twin' ), believed to have been the twin brother of Yashua bin Jusef ( the character known as Jesus ) can be found amongst the materials contained in the Nag Hammadi texts. It provides interesting insights into the Jewish seperatist movement that Yashua and his brothers were deeply involved in during the first century ad. His brother Yacov ( James the Just ), was the actual first 'bishop' of the Jerusalem Church, the forerunner of the later organism that was hijacked by Paul, and later Constantine.

Answer 4

The idea that Judas sold out Jesus is fiction -- Why would the romans pay to find the best known celebrity of the time-- He feed 5k with fish o and some rolls --He was a constant Woodstock for 3 years -- I shall go to the cops to point out gang members --They need my identification abilities -- Hell --They will pay me --Like 45 grand -- Easy money -- Seditionist where a constant problem 1983 years ago in Palestine JC would not have lasted 3 years

Answer 5

Sure.

Here is the link to the gospel.
See:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/gospels/judas/judas_0010.htm

A couple of contextual facts for you:

+ Nazara listed as Nazareth means "city of truth" and was formed around 10 to 15 BCE at the foot hills of Mt Carmel in Galilee

+ During the time of Jesus, Galilee was equivalent to Afghanistan in terms of danger for both Roman soldiers and soldiers of the Herods- a "no go"zone. Arguably the safest place on earth to found a new spiritual movement if your aims were to destroy the Sadducee's and the Pharisees.

+ The guerrilla fighters who protected these parts were known as zealots. Almost all males of the region were fighters in one way or another. For example, Simon (Peter) the Zealot was a powerful guerrilla commander.

+ A branch of fighters were known as the Sicarii, or dagger men, famous for assassinations. A twisted derivation of their name would be Iscariot. Judas, therefore was almost a senior member, if not leader of the dagger men-the most feared of all guerrilla warriors at the time.

+ Of all the great guerrilla commanders, the greatest was Judas of Galilee. It would not take a genius to consider, both Judas of Galilee and Judas the Iscariot, the leader of the most feared warriors were probably one and the same.

Answer 6

There was a documentary on it depicting was his reasons were and his mission
It was written with Judas in mind as a victim of his own making and very sympathetic to his plight

here you go

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/?fs=www9.nationalgeographic.com