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The Thirteenth Apostle: What The Gospel Of Judas Really Says, April D. Deconick, Grant Adamson
The Thirteenth Apostle: What The Gospel Of Judas Really Says, April D. Deconick, Grant Adamson
BYU Studies Quarterly
Among the various apocryphal titles mentioned by the early Church fathers is the Gospel of Judas, a Coptic version of which was recently found in Egypt, purportedly taken from a limestone box together with several other texts during an illegal raid of a burial cave in 1978. Before its first publication by the National Geographic Society in 2006, it was apparently sold, stolen, recovered, sold again, then again, frozen, thawed, and repossessed, such that by the time the work of conservation finally began in 2001, the pages of the Gospel of Judas had been broken into numerous pieces, some of …
Judas In The New Testament, The Restoration, And The Gospel Of Judas, Frank F. Judd-Jr.
Judas In The New Testament, The Restoration, And The Gospel Of Judas, Frank F. Judd-Jr.
BYU Studies Quarterly
This article discusses the Gospel of Judas, an Early Christian text found in Egypt about 1978 and published in 2006 with much media attention. The text of the Gospel of Judas can be evaluated by comparing New Testament scriptures. The author examines canonical references to Judas and concludes that Latter-day Saints may benefit from studying the Gospel of Judas to better understand the nature of the apostasy that occurred after the death of Christ's apostles. However, the author reaffirms that Latter-day Saints should not scour this and other noncanonical books looking for the plain and precious truths believed to be …
Judas: Images Of The Lost Disciple. By Kim Paffenroth, Kelsey D. Lambert
Judas: Images Of The Lost Disciple. By Kim Paffenroth, Kelsey D. Lambert
BYU Studies Quarterly
Kim Paffenroth. Judas: Images of the Lost Disciple. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2001.
The Apocryphal Judas Revisited, John W. Welch
The Apocryphal Judas Revisited, John W. Welch
BYU Studies Quarterly
This article discusses the Gospel of Judas, an Early Christian text found in Egypt about 1978 and published in 2006 with much media attention. What drove the writers of the Gospel of Judas to paint the betraying Apostle in a positive light will most likely remain a mystery. One motive may have been the Gnostic obsession with finding new truths and solving mysteries. Another could have been the Gnostics' rejection of mainstream Christianity and its foundation on Apostles like Peter and Paul. Whatever their motives, the writers of the most recently discovered gospel were not the first to fabricate stories …