tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post8050768086593109830..comments2023-11-02T01:20:32.436-07:00Comments on The Forbidden Gospels: Article Note: "À Propos de la (Re)découverte de L'Évangile de Judas (Louis Painchaud)April DeConickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06616757055618151612noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-78929066727794537162007-05-02T01:58:00.000-07:002007-05-02T01:58:00.000-07:00And what inherited memories caused the writer to b...And what inherited memories caused the writer to believe in a hybrid Jesus - one with a semblance of the human Jesus of the NT, but nevertheless a spirit that could appear to and indwell a human?geoffhudson.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14724916983698195467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-25528122054089340362007-04-30T14:42:00.000-07:002007-04-30T14:42:00.000-07:00The professor states that The Gospel of Judas actu...The professor states that The Gospel of Judas actually 'turns' Judas. I ask, from what? Is he saying that the writer actually turns Judas from what we understand him to be in the NT? We cannot be sure that the writer of the Gospel of Judas had before him exactly what we have. <BR/><BR/>Has the professor considered that the writer may have indeed been working from understood memories of Judas? <BR/><BR/>In the Gospel of Judas, Jesus doesn't have a material body. My view at present of the phrase: "you will sacrifice the man that clothes me" is that 'Jesus' considers that he indwells the body of Judas and that in effect Judas will sacrifice himself. <BR/><BR/>There no mention of crucifixion in the Gospel of Judas (unless it was in the missing text). <BR/><BR/>To me the most important features of this Gospel are the recalled memories, not the readings or interpretations applicable to the time of writing. How for example, did the writer come to think that Judas was a prophet? What made him believe that Judas might have been stoned? And what made him associate Judas with worship in the sanctuary? None of these ideas came from the extant NT. They could have been invented, but they could well have been tranmitted orally, or they could have been memories of documents destroyed before the Gospel of Judas was written. When I tie-in what I understand about Judas in the writings attributed to Josephus, making Judas a central character of the gospel of Judas makes real sense.<BR/><BR/>Geoffgeoffhudson.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14724916983698195467noreply@blogger.com