Judas, minus the betrayal.An ancient Christian manuscript, including the only known text of the Gospel of Judas The Gospel of Judas is a Gnostic gospel. The document is not claimed to have been written by apostle Judas Iscariot himself, but rather by Gnostic followers of Jesus Christ. , has surfaced after 1,700 years, and it portrays Judas Iscariot Judas Iscariot (ĭskâr`ēət), Jesus' betrayer, possibly from the village of Kerioth, the only Judaean disciple among the Twelve, and, according to the Gospel of St. John, their treasurer. not, as tradition holds, a betrayer of Jesus but as his favored disciple and willing collaborator. In this text, scholars report, Jesus asks Judas to betray him to the Roman authorities. Some experts say the text sheds new light on the relationship between Jesus and Judas. Others say it is yet another scripture produced by the Christian cur cur a derogatory term for a mongrel dog. of Gnostics, whose followers lived a few hundred years after Jesus' day and could not possibly have written anything accurate about his life. The document, made around 300 A.D., was discovered in the 1970s near El Minya, Egypt Minya is a city in Egypt. It is the capital of Minya Governorate. The name of the city is derived from its Egyptian name Men'at Khufu. The name may also originate from the city's name in Sahidic Coptic Tmoone (') and in Bohairic: Thmonē ( . It is considered the most significant ancient, nonbiblical, text to be uncovered in the past 60 years. Previous major finds include the Dead Sea Scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient leather and papyrus scrolls first discovered in 1947 in caves on the NW shore of the Dead Sea. Most of the documents were written or copied between the 1st cent. B.C. and the first half of the 1st cent. A.D. , discovered in a cave near the Dead Sea in 1947, and a collection of Gnostic writings, found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945. |
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