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Having read the article in Friday's Chicago Tribune on the subject, I proceeded around a variety of blog posts and eventually landed on a PDF of the Gospel of Judas. So I read it.

If you think of it as a marketing document for Gnostic Christians of the Second Century, you'd probably be about right...

Date: 2006-04-10 07:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jrittenhouse.livejournal.com
Or more accurately, just another goofy Christian-based cult thingy. Yes, it's from AD 300, but there were a lot of weird bozos back then, too.

Date: 2006-04-10 10:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com
The Gospel of Judas is a much later text than the canonical gospels, and is probably derived from documents that were known to exist the century before. It's a cool archaeological and historical find, but there are dozens of Gospels out there--I think we picked the four we did for a reason.

Date: 2006-04-10 01:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] scarfman
My favorite discussion of the find so far is here. It's irreverent but has truth too.

Date: 2006-04-10 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drzarron.livejournal.com
Its just a cracking good Judas Mary-Sue Fanfic..

Next up... Jesus/Judas

Oops.. going to Hell.

Date: 2006-04-10 04:17 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-04-10 04:46 pm (UTC)
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Marketing, evangelism ... same thing.

It's interesting to speculate on what things would be like if another branch of Christianity had come out the winner, and the version which we know best today had been the wacko cult. But probably no one would ever have figured out what the Gnostics were really saying, so they wouldn't have mass appeal.

Date: 2006-04-10 05:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andpuff.livejournal.com
Thanks for the link! I wanted to read it but was too lazy busy to go looking myself.

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