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The Gospel of Judas is a non-canonical Gnostic gospel.The content consists of conversations between Jesus and Judas Iscariot.Given that it includes late 2nd-century theology, it is widely thought to have been composed in the 2nd century (prior to 180 AD) by Gnostic Christians. [1]
In her book The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination 1860–1920, Jennifer Stevens cites The Gospel According to Judas as a recent "low" in the history of representations of Jesus in fiction, contrasted with the recent "high" of Jim Crace's novel Quarantine. [1]
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).
The Apocryphon of James (also known as the Secret Book of James) The Gospel of Truth; The Treatise on the Resurrection; The Tripartite Tractate; Codex II: The Apocryphon of John; The Gospel of Thomas a sayings gospel; The Gospel of Philip; The Hypostasis of the Archons; On the Origin of the World; The Exegesis on the Soul; The Book of Thomas ...
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 Books of Jeu are two Gnostic texts. Though independent works, both the First Book of Jeu and the Second Book of Jeu appear, in Sahidic Coptic , in the Bruce Codex . [ 1 ] They are a combination of a gospel and an esoteric revelation; the work professes to record conversations Jesus had with both the male apostles and his female disciples ...
The Letter of Peter to Philip is a Gnostic writing. [1] [2] It was initially discovered as the second tractate in Codex VIII of the Nag Hammadi library. [1]The tractate is a Coptic translation of a Greek original, [1] likely written in c. 200 AD. [2]
The Kiss of Judas by Giotto di Bondone (between 1304 and 1306) depicts Judas's identifying kiss in the Garden of Gethsemane. Judas Iscariot (/ ˈ dʒ uː d ə s ɪ ˈ s k æ r i ə t /; Biblical Greek: Ἰούδας Ἰσκαριώτης, romanized: Ioúdas Iskariṓtēs; died c. 30 – c. 33 AD) was, according to Christianity's four canonical gospels, one of the original Twelve Apostles of ...