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January 6, 2007
The Gospel of Judas, One More Time
This morning's Los Angeles Times has a front-page article on the controversy over the publication of the Coptic Gospel of Judas. The article by Times staff writer Louis Sahagun contains little news. Anyone who has followed this story will be aware of most of what it reports. The story says very little about the Coptic Gospel but much about two of the major players in all things Coptic, Marvin Meyer and James Robinson, and the role of The National Geographic Society in the publication.
Since I know at least some of the people involved, I am hesitant to say much about this whole controversy. However, I think the person who got the short end of the stick in all this is someone not even mentioned in the article: Charles Hedrick. As I noted in an earlier post, Hedrick saw at least part of the papyrus manuscript in or before 2001, three years before The National Geographic Society approached Meyer. Hedrick even translated the last page in 2001. Yet, as far as I know, he had no role in the publication.
You might want to take a look at what Jim Davila has to say about this article over at PaleoJudaica.
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