The Historical Setting of the Gospel of Judas and its Presentation to the Wider Public Cover Image

Júdás evangéliumának történeti háttere és bemutatása a nagy nyilvánosság előtt
The Historical Setting of the Gospel of Judas and its Presentation to the Wider Public

With an Appendix on its Dependence on the Canonical Gospels

Author(s): Riemer Roukema
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Erdélyi Református Egyházkerület
Keywords: Gospel of Judas;apocryphal gospels;Gospel;

Summary/Abstract: When in April 2006 the Gospel of Judas was presented to the world in a provisional Coptic text and a first translation into English on the website of the National Geographic Society, the first comments on this apocryphon were highly ambiguous. On the one hand scholars immediately recognized it as a Gnostic text comparable to the writings found in Nag Hammadi, and considered that this might well be the Gospel of Judas referred to by Irenaeus. More specifically, its connection with Sethian texts was soon established, and for these reasons the newly found document was dated to the early or mid second century.

  • Issue Year: 103/2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-20
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Hungarian