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The content of the gospel had been unknown until a Coptic Gospel of Judas turned up on the antiquities "grey market," in Geneva in May 1983, when it was found among a mixed group of Greek and Coptic manuscripts offered to Stephen Emmel, a Yale Ph.D. candidate commissioned by Southern Methodist University to inspect the manuscripts.
Codex Tchacos is an ancient Egyptian Coptic codex from approximately 300 AD, which contains early Christian gnostic texts: the Letter of Peter to Philip, the First Apocalypse of James, the Gospel of Judas, and a fragment of The Temptation of Allogenes (a different text from the previously known Nag Hammadi Library text Allogenes).
His latest published work was an English translation of a 1,700-year-old copy of the "Gospel of Judas". [3] The papyrus manuscript went on display at the National Geographic Society's museum in Washington DC, in April 2006. The translation contends that the most vilified man in Christendom understood Jesus better than any of the other disciples.
The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is a non-canonical [1] sayings gospel. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi , Egypt , in 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library .
The Gospel of Judas: Rewriting Early Christianity. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191527531. OCLC 191028046. ——— (2012). The Composition of the Gospel of Thomas : original language and influences. Society for New Testament Studies: Monograph series. Vol. 151. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press.
In April 2006, a Coptic papyrus manuscript titled the Gospel of Judas from 200 AD was translated, suggesting that Jesus told Judas to betray him, [76] although some scholars question the translation. [77] [78] Some scholars believe that it contains no historical information. [79] Judas is the subject of philosophical writings.
The title is given at the end of the text. The dialogue of the risen Jesus with Judas Thomas concerning knowledge and truth, as recorded by the apostle Matthew. 13 NHC-III 1: The Apocryphon of John: 1–40: Ap. John: Short version. 14: 2: Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit (The Gospel of the Egyptians) 40–69: Gos. Eg.
The Rossano Gospels, designated by 042 or Σ (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 18 (), held at the cathedral of Rossano in Italy, is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book written following the reconquest of the Italian peninsula by the Byzantine Empire.