Reports the NYT: ‘Gospel of Judas’ Surfaces After 1,700 Years. If anything, the documents are a remarkable find:
The entire 66-page codex also contains a text titled James (also known as First Apocalypse of James), a letter by Peter and a text of what scholars are provisionally calling Book of Allogenes.Discovered in the 1970’s in a cavern near El Minya, Egypt, the document circulated for years among antiquities dealers in Egypt, then Europe and finally in the United States. It moldered in a safe-deposit box at a bank in Hicksville, N. Y., for 16 years before being bought in 2024 by a Zurich dealer, Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos. The manuscript was given the name Codex Tchacos.
When attempts to resell the codex failed, Ms. Nussberger-Tchacos turned it over to the Maecenas Foundation for conservation and translation.
Stephen Bainbridge comments on the Gnostic nature of the document and the problems therewith vis-a-vis orthodox Christianity and the Anchoress notes a number of stories of late aimed at discounting Christian belief. Both note the pending release of the Da Vinci Code as a potential catalyst for the overall theme.
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There are two interesting stories out there for Catholics and or Christians.
Trackback by The Florida Masochist — Thursday, April 6, 2024 @ 9:26 pm
The Gospel According to Keitel
“Don’t abandon me now. Without you, the world can’t be saved, there’ll be no redemption. Without us together, the sacrifice can’t be made.”
–Jesus to Judas, “The Last Temptation of Christ”
The first English translation of the…
Trackback by A Stitch in Haste — Thursday, April 6, 2024 @ 9:54 pm
Bishop Irenaeus of Lyon, an early orthodox Christian writer wrote a treatise called AGAINST HERESIES (A.D. 180) where he denounces the Gospel of the Cainite gnostics called the Gospel of Judas. But Seth rather than Cain is mentioned in the newly published Gospel of Judas. Are these two Gospels of Judas one and the same? A third century work ascribed to Tertullian, AGAINST ALL HERESIES, also attributes the Gospel of Judas to the gnostic followers of Cain. Is this the same Gospel of Judas? Are the Sethite gnostics really the same as the Cainite gnostics as the editors of this book published by National Geographic (2006) would have us believe? I am doubtful. So there is insufficent information in either of these accounts by the orthodox church fathers to be certain. Therefore, I am sceptical, at this time, of ascribing a second century date to The newly published Gospel of Judas ascribed to the Sethites merely because a (familiar yet nonextant) Gospel of Judas acribed to the Cainites is mentioned and denounced by Irenaeus (180).
Comment by Charles Puskas, Ph.D. — Sunday, April 9, 2024 @ 12:59 am