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June 12, 2005
Gospel of Judas Update
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Coptic Gospel of Judas. There is a new press release from the Coptic Museum on i-Newswire. It doesn't tell much that was not already known and discussed in my previous post.
The document could move the Apostel Judas, who is known as traitor, into a new light. The manuscript was offered for sale several times, but disappeared again and again from the scene.The fragile document finally arrived at the "Maecenas-Stiftung" in Basel (Switzerland) where experts currently translate it.
A researcher team led by Professor Rodolphe Kasser is about to decipher the coptic writing on the approximately 1700 years old fragile papyrus sheets.
The research team will release the translated manuscript within the next year (2006) at the Coptic Museum in Cairo. For now the contents of the manuscript are "top secret". [obviously translated from Arabic]
The press release does give a picture of the codex.
Via Paleojudaica
Posted by DuaneSmith at June 12, 2005 09:24 AM | Read more on Archaeology |
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