- Publication of the Forbidden Gospel of Judas will unleash
controversy among the Christian religious community.
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- According to the Daily Telegraph, a Swiss foundation
and National Geographic magazine are planning to publish translations of
the The Gospel of Judas, an ancient Coptic text found in Egypt during the
1970s.
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- Althought the gospel's text is still not available, experts
highlight that when Judas betrayed Jesus, he was acting under direct orders
from God.
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- The gospel was translated by Rodolphe Kasser, the foremost
expert in the analysis of Coptic texts at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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- The original document -- a papyrus -- dates from the
4th century and was made available for sale to collectors in the United
States and Europe for many decades after its discovery in Egypt's Al-Minya
region. It was recently identified as par tof the prestigious collection
of the Maecenas Foundation in Basle, Switzerland, although some scholars
question that it could have been written by Judas himself, and was more
likely the creation of a group of his followers.
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- (Translation (c) 2006, Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks
to Jose M. García Bautista)
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