Thirteenth Apostle
Subtitle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group; Continuum
Published: December 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780826499646
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Books of the New Testament; Antiquities & Archaeology; Biblical Studies - Controversial Speculation; Biblical Studies - General; Religion; Religion - Biblical Studies; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Gospel of Judas
Description: April, who is Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University, offers a new translation of the Gospel of Judas which seriously challenges the National Geographic version, until now the only available English translation. April takes issue with the National Geographic interpretation of a "good Judas", and with those scholars such as Bart Ehrman and Elaine Pagels who have endorsed this reading, and insists rather that the gospel presents a Judas who is as evil as he has ever been. She argues that the Gospel of Judas is not about a "good" Judas, or even a "poor old" Judas. It is a gospel parody about a "demon" Judas written by a particular group of Gnostic Christians, the Sethians. - Publisher.