The Forbidden Gospels

An Op-Ed blog by April DeConick,

featuring discussions of the Nag Hammadi collection,

Tchacos Codex, and other Christian apocrypha,

but mostly just the things on my mind.

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April DeConick Meets the Press

CNN-Mental Floss: Ten Kisses
Aeon Byte - DeConick discusses John and Thomas
New York Times - DeConick - Gospel Truth
SBL Forum - DeConick - More on the Gospel Truth
Chronicle for Higher Education - Tom Bartlett - Gospel of Judas
National Geographic's Response to Tom Bartlett - Gospel of Judas
Rice Who Knew? - Judas wasn't a hero
Rice Thresher - Bryan Ellis - Codex Judas Congress
U.S. News and World Report - Jay Tolson - Judas wasn't even a gnostic hero
MacLean's - Brian Bethune - The apostle who haunts us still
National Review - John Miller - The Gospel Truth? Questions about the Judas Manuscript
The Christian Century - John Dart - Judas is a demon in new read of the gospel
Baptist News - Gregory Tomlin - Gnostics Called Judas Demon, no hero
Huffington Post - Robert Eisenman - Gospel Fiction and the Redemonization of Judas
National Geographic - Stefan Lovgren - Judas was demon after all
National Geographic's response to DeConick
National Geographic - Marvin Meyer - Response to DeConick
Interview on 13th Apostle - Coffee, Cigarettes and Gnosis
San Antonio Convention
Codex Judas Congress - Faculty Initiative Grant from Rice
Finding Thomas - IWU Magazine Feature
IWU researcher studies the Gospel of Thomas
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Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University

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