TY - BOOK ID - 77872577 TI - The Gospel of Judas : rewriting early Christianity PY - 2007 SN - 1281149888 9786611149888 019152753X 1435618068 9780191527531 0199225842 9780199225842 9781435618060 9781281149886 6611149880 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Apocryphal books. KW - Apocryphal literature KW - Pseudepigrapha KW - Sacred books KW - Gospel of Judas KW - Bible. KW - Gospel of Judas Iscariot KW - Peuaggelion Nioudas KW - Secret book of Judas of Kerioth KW - Secret Gospel of Judas of Kerioth KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77872577 AB - The newly-discovered ancient text of the Gospel of Judas offers a picture of Judas Iscariot radically different from the Church's traditional understanding of him as the arch-traitor. Simon Gathercole's book, which includes a translation and a running commentary, gets behind the hype which the Gospel of Judas has attracted. - ;`Judas' is synonymous with `traitor'. But a newly-discovered ancient text of the Gospel of Judas offers a picture of Judas Iscariot radically different from the Church's traditional understanding of him, and maintains that far from being the infamous betrayer, Judas was ER -