{"id":902,"date":"2006-04-06T14:59:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-knew-it-was-the-coptics-all-along\/"},"modified":"2006-04-06T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T19:59:57","slug":"i-knew-it-was-the-coptics-all-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-knew-it-was-the-coptics-all-along","title":{"rendered":"I knew it was the Coptics all along!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an article about the “Gospel of Judas,”<\/a> replete with some great quotes:<\/p>\n

“Whether or not one agrees with it, or finds it interesting or reprehensible, it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s an enormously interesting perspective on it that some follower of Jesus in the early Christian movement obviously thought was significant.”<\/p>\n

“It really would be a miracle if Judas was the author of this document, because he died at least 100 years before it was written. It may yield some interesting insights, but there\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s nothing here to undermine what Christians have believed throughout the centuries.”<\/p>\n

“It contains a number of religious themes which are completely alien to the first-century world of Jesus and Judas, but which did become popular later, in the second century AD. An analogy would be finding a speech claiming to be written by Queen Victoria, in which she talked about The Lord of the Rings and her CD collection.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hear the manuscript has a passage where he complains about Harvey Keitel’s portrayal of him in the Last Temptation.<\/p>\n

My favorite passage in the article is the one that seems to exonerate the Jews from the crucifixion:<\/p>\n

[The manuscript] is believed to be a copy of a still earlier Gospel of Judas, which may have been written about 150 years after Jesus’s death by Coptic scholars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an article about the “Gospel of Judas,” replete with some great quotes: “Whether or not one agrees with it, or finds it interesting or reprehensible, it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s an enormously interesting perspective on it that some follower of Jesus in the early Christian movement obviously thought was significant.” “It really would be a miracle if Judas … <\/p>\n

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