About this title: The recent National Geographic special on the Gospel of Judas was a major media event, introducing to tens of millions of viewers one of the most important biblical discoveries of modern times. Now, a leading historian of the early church, Bart Ehrman, offers the first comprehensive account of the newly discovered Gospel of Judas, revealing what ...
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Date Published: 2006
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Date Published: 2006
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
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"While Ehrman's writing is a bit redundant, you sure get his point by the end. The book is more than just a discussion of the "Gospel of Judas"; it covers all views of Judas from orthodox Christian to the Gnostics. I am a fan of his and enjoy his studies of early Christianity. But I think I'll skip Gnostic beliefs; Christianity is complex enough without another layer of Gods and random "electness.""
"Not a bad book . . . but it wasn't what I was hoping for. I had thought that it would contain a full transcription of the parchment, along with his translation, but it's actual a surmation with snippets that he directly translates. I imagine the National Geographic is holding tightly to the rights, even though it is Bart Ehrman.
If you have read any earlier Bart Ehrman books, there are no big surprises in this. He has no big epiphany. It does afford him an opportunity to wax further and develop the literary as opposed to historical Judas Iscariot and the many observations and development of his character over the century. But it doesn't change any views that he has expressed formerly in his earlier books, such Apocalyptic Prophet.
But it is an event, the revealing of a long-lost Gnostic Gospel that has not been seen in over 1800 years. Well-worth a read for that reason alone. But don't expect any great revolutionary observations by Ehrman. His focus is simplicity and straight, logical analysis."
"As with Lost Christianities, I found the last chapter of this book to be far and away the best part of it. Much of the rest was too rambling and repetitive to justify giving the book a high rating. In the first 5 or 6 chapters, there were some points that I found interesting, but too often I found myself wondering why Ehrman was going on and on about what seemed to me to be idle speculations that have little if any usefulness in contemporary settings. I was surprised to find so little of the actual Gospel of Judas Iscariot actually referred to directly. Very little of it was actually quoted or used directly by Ehrman. The good part of this is that I've been motivated to seek out Meyer's volume on the Gospel and will read it. Ehrman does bring up some possible scenarios as to how the dynamics might have been radically different between Jesus and Judas than commonly accepted and why this may have been. Again, though, some of his possible scenarios stretch the reader's imagination a bit much."
"A very interesting book, but it most of it is not the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. It's more about early Christianity, the various canon gospels of the New Testament, and the various other gospels written during first couple of centuries after the death of Jesus. It looks at all of these works from a literary and historical point of view, rather than a religious one. This openned my mind to a new way of thinking about these texts."
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