judas, judas, everywhere...

And lots to make you think...

Yesterday was the official unveiling of the Gospel of Judas, headed up by National Geographic. This "Gospel" is a second-century writing which presents dialogues of Jesus particularly with Judas, in a manner reminiscent of some of the Nag Hammadi texts. Here are a few websites and blog posts related to this find.

• The official National Geographic website: The Lost Gospel
• Texts from the National Geographic website: Gospel of Judas in Coptic - Gospel of Judas in English translation
• Jim Davila has several back-posts that describe events leading up to this unveiling: PaleoJudaica.com blogsearch
• The discovery and publication of any second-century text related to early Christianity is always significant, but lest one be tempted to put too much stock in texts like the Gospel of Judas, Ed Cook offers some helpful cautions: Is the Gospel of Judas "Troubling"?

UPDATE (04/10): Mark Goodacre has a "megapost" rounding up some of the best articles and blogposts with some commentary: Gospel of Judas megapost. He also has a running commentary on the National Geographic documentary that aired last night, as does Jim West. On Mark's megapost, he links to Roger Pearse's megasite on the Gospel of Judas: The Coptic Ps.Gospel of Judas (Iscariot).