The Gospel of Judas / edited by Johanna Brankaer ; introduction by Bas van Os.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brankaer, Johanna, editor.

Os, Bas van, writer of introduction.

Series:

Oxford early Christian gospel texts

Oxford early Christian Gospel texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gospel of Judas--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Gospel of Judas.

Codex Tchacos.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 265 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This book provides a critical edition of a major non-canonical Gospel: the Gospel of 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-253) and indexes.

ISBN:

0199672628

9780199672622

OCLC:

1039630977