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A Spectator’s Guide to the Gospel of Judas
Published date: Friday, August 18, 2006
By: John Dickson

John Dickson gives us a summary of all we need to know about the Gospel of Judas

  • We’ve known of the existence of a ‘Gospel of Judas’ ever since Bishop Irenaeus toward the end of the second century made reference to a newly devised Gospel designed to cast Judas as the hero of the faith (and all the other apostles as ill-informed).
  • The sole manuscript copy of the Gospel of Judas was discovered in Egypt in the mid-1970s.
  • The manuscript itself dates

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