The Gnostics : Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.īrakke, David. "Examination of the Gospel of Judas Using An Integrated Approach to Ink Characterization." Microscopy today 14 (2006): 6-15.īooysen, Riaan. Polebridge Press, 2010.īarabe, Joseph, Kathleen Martin, Elaine. The Acts of Thomas (Early Christian Apocrypha). Gospel Standard Trust Publications, 1990.Īttridge, Harlod. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.” Along the same lines, Elaine Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton specialized in studies of the Gnostics wrote into her introduction to the Nag Hammadi documents, “These discoveries are exploding the myth of a monolithic religion, and demonstrating how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.” (Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels 1989)Īlfred, Levell. Or as Jesus clearly states in the assumed Gospel: “You will exceed all of them. Judas is the heroic disciple who solely knew the truth and acted according to the divine plan to help Jesus escape this material world. The one disciple who actually understood the destiny of Jesus better than all the others. He claims that for some Christians, and according to what the Gospel of Judas conveys, Judas is Jesus’ closest intimate friend. For example, Bart Ehrman in his book “The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot” (Ehrman 2008) argues that in the early centuries of Christianity there were many sects of Christians each has its own beliefs with no common ground and core understanding between them.
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