The Gospel of Judas: Was the Betrayer the One Who Understood?
On April 6, 2006, the National Geographic Society announced that a lost gospel had been restored and translated. It was the Gospel of Judas, and the story that ran everywhere that spring was simple enough to fit in a headline. Judas wasn’t the traitor. He was the one disciple who understood Jesus, and he handed him over because Jesus asked him to. About a year and a half later, a Rice University scholar named April DeConick wrote in the New York Times that the translation had turned the text upside down. In her reading, the Judas of this gospel was a demon. ...