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Gathercole Simon |
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Titolo |
The Gospel of Judas [[electronic resource] ] : rewriting early Christianity / / Simon Gathercole |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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1-281-14988-8 |
9786611149888 |
0-19-152753-X |
1-4356-1806-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Out of Egypt; 2. Judas in the New Testament; 3. The Next 100 Years; 4. Translation and Interpretation; 5. The Cainites; 6. Rewriting History; 7. Brave New World; Epilogue: The Future of the Gospel of Judas; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index of Authors and Select Topics |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The newly-discovered ancient text of the Gospel of Judas offers a picture of Judas Iscariot radically different from the Church's traditional understanding of him as the arch-traitor. Simon Gathercole's book, which includes a translation and a running commentary, gets behind the hype which the Gospel of Judas has attracted. - ;`Judas' is synonymous with `traitor'. But a newly-discovered ancient text of the Gospel of Judas offers a picture of Judas Iscariot radically different from the Church's traditional understanding of him, and maintains that far from being the infamous betrayer, Judas was |
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