Gospel of Judas

This book provides a critical edition of a major non-canonical Gospel: the <em>Gospel of</em> Judas. It is based upon the manuscript published in 2007 by the National Geographic Society as well as the fragments of the same codex Tchacos that have since become available for study. The introduction by Bas van Os explores various aspects of this writing: its inclusion in the Codex Tchacos the literary genre and the structure of the text the Gospel narrative that frames the text the polemical story the relation between mythological representations from this text and those from Sethian traditions and Genesis material the intended audience of the text and its provenance. Johanna Brankaer provides a comprehensive commentary covering the whole of the text. It contains philological as well as substantive elements and unveils the intra-textual coherence as well as the affinities with other Gnostic apocryphal patristic and biblical traditions. Special attention is paid to the characterization of the disciples and Judas to the much debated sacrificial theory behind the text and its rejection of the Eucharist (and Baptism) of the apostolic church to expressions of (astral and eschatological) determinism and to the Gnostic protology and cosmology.<br>