April, who is Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University, offers a new translation of the Gospel of Judas which seriously challenges the National Geographic version, until now the only available English translation. April takes issue with the National Geographic interpreta…
April, who is Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University, offers a new translation of the Gospel of Judas which seriously challenges the National Geographic version, until now the only available English translation. April takes issue with the National Geographic interpreta…
The gospel character of Judas clearly indicates Christian myth making. As the insider become outsider he demarcates Christian boundaries and, therefore, helps define insider identity and locate evil. Three Versions of Judas explores the mythic work transpiring in the Judases of …
The Gospels of the Marginalized provides an exciting new study of three of the most maligned figures in the New Testament story of Jesus: Thomas, usually considered the quintessential doubter among the disciples; Mary Magdalene, characterized as a repentant prostitute during muc…
The Gospels of the Marginalized provides an exciting new study of three of the most maligned figures in the New Testament story of Jesus: Thomas, usually considered the quintessential doubter among the disciples; Mary Magdalene, characterized as a repentant prostitute during muc…
The papers gathered in this book were presented at the First International Conference (held in Paris, University of Sorbonne, October 27th-28th, 2006), devoted to the newly discovered Gospel of Judas, preserved in the 4th century Coptic Codex Tchacos. These essays explore severa…
Offers the papers presented at the First International Conference on the Coptic Gospel of Judas, held in Paris, University of Sorbonne, October 27th-28th 2006. This book explores several crucial literary, historical and doctrinal issues related to this apocryphon of the 2nd cent…
The codex Judas congress and its proceedings / April D. DeConick Abbreviations -- Identity and community -- The Tchacos codex : another document of the gnostics? / Alastair Logan -- Marytrdom and its discontents in the Tchacos codex / Karen L. King -- Irenaeus on the Gospel of J…
This book contains the proceedings from the Codex Judas Congress held to discuss the newly-restored Tchacos Codex. Since this codex is a newly-conserved ancient book of Christian manuscripts which had yet to be discussed collaboratively by a body of scholars, this book is nothin…
Reading Judas / Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King -- Judas : betrayer or favored disciple? -- Judas and the twelve -- Sacrifice and the life of the spirit -- The mysteries of the kingdom -- A final note -- The Gospel of Judas / Karen L. King -- English translation of the Gospel of…