Gospel of Judas

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The Gospel of Judas is a Gnostic religious text that consists of conversations between Jesus and his disciples, especially Judas Iscariot. The only copy of it known to exist is a Coptic language text that is part of the Codex Tchacos, which has been radiocarbon dated to 220–340 CE. Like the Gnostic texts of the Nag Hammadi library, this version is believed by most biblical scholars to be a translation of an original which was composed by an anonymous author in the Greek language by Gnostic Christians in the 2nd century. Rejected as heresy by the early Christian church and lost for 1700 years, the document was rediscovered in Egypt in the 1970s. Decades of neglect and poor storage led to the degradation of much of the manuscript, leading to the loss of a few portions of the text. After undergoing extensive restoration and preservation, an English translation of the surviving text was first published in early 2006 by the National Geographic Society.

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