April D. DeConick, The Thirteenth Apostle. (c) 2007, Continuum. London, New York.
This scholarly translation of the recently discovered Gospel of Judas attempts to address some inaccuracies and misrepresentations made in the original translation. DeConick’s translation work began the day the plates from the National Geographic scholars had been released. Reading from the original Coptic, it [...]
Book Review — The 13th Apostle
June 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments · christianity, history, media, metaphysics
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Gospel of Judas, revisited
May 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments · christianity, history, media
The latest issue of BAR revisits the much hyped Gospel of Judas, and has some unkind words for National Geographic and their media-heavy release of the original material. The biggest complaint was that they picked the wrong scholars who didn’t understand Gnostic cultures and misinterpreted key passages of the text. Most significantly, NatlGeo published an [...]
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Gospel of Judas
March 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · christianity, history, media
Last night during the “Gnosticism to Christianity” discussion with the CUUPS group, one member asked me if I knew of any of the latests books to have been discovered. I said that there hadn’t been any major announced discoveries, but that we were still translating a lot of the materials we had already found.
Case in [...]