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Judas and the Gospel of Jesus: Have we Missed the Truth about Christianity? is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does the Gospel of Judas really tell us? Joining other recently found and publicized “gospels,” the Gospel of Judas has found its way into the limelight. The ancient manuscript appears to be genuine—so what are we to make of the claims therein? Claims such as: • Judas was doing what Jesus asked him to do when he betrayed Jesus • Jesus came to offer secret knowledge of how to escape this...

This difference is not theologically or religiously accidental. The gnostic gospels, by and large, do not believe that anything has happened that has changed the world. They are not actually interested, as the canonical gospels are, in the events as events, in Jesus’ biography as biography. (One of the great gains of New Testament scholarship in the last generation has been to reestablish that the canonical gospels certainly were intended, and certainly are to be read, within the framework of ancient
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