Judas the Beloved?
Has anyone else ever heard of this? Kind of dumb and disturbing at the same time.
posted by Forrest at 1:02 PM
Thursday, April 06, 2006
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2 Comments:
If you scroll down about halfway through the Questions and Answers, you'll find that the scholar admits that Irenaeus wrote a scathing denunciation of this exact document in about 180. Now we know that Irenaeus was the great early apologist against the Gnostics, so it would seem that this new "Gospel of Judas" is just one more in that class of writings known as "the Gnostic Gospels." There were lots of these things floating around in the early Church, and Irenaeus and others refuted them soundly.
Nothing to be concerned about. It may, as the scholar notes, open up new avenues of historical exploration [in terms of the history of Gnosticism], but it's not going to shake anything up in the Church. The excerpt the guy read from the "Gospel" speaks of Jesus's "soul" being liberated from his body and flying up to heaven. Pretty Gnostic stuff, that. Gnosticism was dealt with a long time ago. Every few years these scholars come out with a "new" one as they translate them. About as earth-shaking as TIME magazine's yearly cheerleading fest for the blabberings of the Jesus Seminar.
LOL, thanks Tim... Yeah, I read that passage that the interviewee (is that a word?) quotes, and I find it hilarious that they don't see the obvious problems it contains. Sounds like a hippie gospel if you ask me.
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