Anouk, from
Wikipedia:
The
Gospel of Judas is a
Gnostic gospel.
The document is not claimed to have been written by apostle Judas Iscariot himself, but rather by
Gnostic followers of Jesus Christ. It exists in an early fourth century
Coptic text, though it has been proposed, but not proven, that the text is a translation of an earlier Greek version.
The Gospel of Judas is undeniably from no earlier than the second century, since it contains theology that is not represented before the second half of the second century, and since its introduction and epilogue assume the reader is familiar with the canonical Gospels.
According to the
canonical Gospels of the
New Testament, (
Matthew,
Mark,
Luke, and
John), Judas betrayed
Jesus to Jerusalem's
Great Sanhedrin, which officiated over the crucifixion of Jesus with the endorsement of representatives of the occupying power, the
Roman Empire. The Gospel of Judas, on the other hand, portrays Judas in a very different perspective than do the Gospels of the New Testament, according to a preliminary translation made in early 2006 by the
National Geographic Society: the Gospel of Judas appears to interpret Judas's act not as betrayal, but rather as an act of obedience to the instructions of Jesus. This portrayal seems to conform to a notion, current in some forms of
Gnosticism, that the human form is a spiritual prison, and that Judas thus served Christ by helping to release Christ's spirit from its physical constraints.
The Gospel of Judas does not claim that the other
disciples knew gnostic teachings. On the contrary, it asserts that the disciples had not learned the true Gospel, which Jesus taught only to Judas Iscariot.
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