I am therefore writing this little book to make three points. First, this new “Gospel of Judas,” while a spectacularly interesting archaeological find, tells us nothing about the real Jesus, or for that matter the real Judas. In particular, it doesn’t (as some have claimed) “rehabilitate” Judas over against either the charges laid against him in the New Testament or the anti-Jewish use that was made of the Judas tradition in the Middle Ages. Second, the enthusiasm for this new “gospel” lays bare