Gospel of Judas

Evangelium Iudae Iscariotae

Standard abbreviation: Gos. Jud.

Other titles: none

Clavis numbers: ECCA 860

Category: Revelatory Dialogues

Related literature: Apocryphon of John, Eugnostos, Gospel of the Egyptians (Coptic), and First Thought in Three Forms (Trimorphic Protennoia).

Compiled by: David Brakke, Ohio State University

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Created March 2025.

1. SUMMARY

The Gospel of Judas is a dialogue gospel in which Jesus converses with his twelve disciples or with Judas alone in four appearances that take place during eight days before he celebrates the Passover or Last Supper. It was composed in Greek sometime in the middle decades of the second century and was known to Irenaeus of Lyon, who around 180 claimed that “gnostics” had “fabricated” it (Against the Heresies 1.31.1). Only a Coptic translation survives in Codex Tchacos, a fourth-century codex that was discovered in Egypt in the late twentieth century. Gos. Jud. is the third of five known tractates in the codex, appearing on pages 33–58; the text is damaged and barely or not at all legible in places, with about 10% of the text missing.

The anonymous author refers to his work as a “secret report of judgment,” which captures the work’s polemical tone and emphasis on condemnation. The gospel opens with a brief summary of Jesus’ earthly ministry of miracles and teaching as found in the canonical gospels, including his calling of twelve disciples. It then narrates four appearances of Jesus to his disciples or to Judas. In the first appearance Jesus finds the disciples giving thanks (eucharist) over a meal, which he mocks as offered to the god of the disciples; they suggest that Jesus is the son of their god. Only Judas correctly identifies Jesus as having come from the aeon Barbēlō, the second divine principle in (Sethian) gnostic myth. Jesus promises to reveal to Judas mysteries of the kingdom, but warns him that he will not go there. In the second appearance Jesus reveals to the disciples that there is another race (genea), which is great, mighty, and holy and to which the disciples do not belong. In the third appearance the disciples report to Jesus a dream in which they saw corrupt priests sacrificing numerous animals on an altar. Jesus first identifies the disciples as the corrupt priests, sacrificing their followers to their god; he then identifies the priests as star powers who will make a final sacrifice to their god before the last day. Jesus rebuffs the disciples’ request to be cleansed from their sins.

In the fourth and final appearance, Jesus tells Judas why he must sacrifice the man who bears Jesus by explaining the origin and domination of the rulers of this cosmos. Jesus’ narrative presents a simple version of the (Sethian) gnostic myth found also in such works as The Secret Book According to John, The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit (Egyptian Gospel), and First Thought in Three Forms (Trimorphic Protennoia). Jesus concludes by predicting the destruction of the rulers of this cosmos, and he suggests that Judas will replace the chief ruler as the “thirteenth demon.” Jesus enters a cloud and disappears from Judas’ sight.

The gospel then returns to the narratives of the canonical gospels with Jesus praying in the guest room. Jewish scribes approach Judas, who accepts money from them and hands Jesus over to them.

Named Historical Figures and Characters: Adam, Adonaios, Barbelo, Eleleth (angel), Eve, Gabriel (angel), Galila, Harmathoth, Ialdabaoth, Iobel, Judas Iscariot, Michael (angel), Nebro, Saklas, Seth (patriarch).

Geographical Locations: Hades, Judea.

2. RESOURCES

2.1 Web Sites and Other Online Resources

Cherix, Pierre. “Évangile de Judas.” Coptica. 2007. Text and translation.

“Codex Tchacos.” Wikipedia.

Early Christian Writings: Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Administrator: Peter Kirby (page created prior to publication of Codex Tchacos).

“Gospel of Judas.” Wikipedia.

“Gospel of Judas.” Gospels.net. Translated by Mark M. Mattison.

3. BIBLIOGRAPHY

3.1 Manuscripts and Editions

3.1.1 Coptic (Sahidic; CPC 891)

Basel, Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art, Codex Tchacos, pp. 33–58 (4th cent.) ~ IMAGES; PAThs

Bermejo Rubio, Fernando. El evangelio de Judas: Texto bilingüe y comentario. Biblioteca de estudios bíblicos minor 19. Salamanca: Ediciones Sígueme, 2012 (Coptic text with facing Spanish translation, pp. 80–163).

Brankaer, Johanna, introduction by Bas van Os. The Gospel of Judas. OECGT. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 (critical edition with facing English translation, pp. 61–115).

Brankaer, Johanna, and Hans-Gebhard von Bethge. Codex Tchacos: Texte und Analysen. TU 161. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2007 (pp. 255–372).

Devoti, Domenico. Vangelo di Giuda. La letteratura Cristiana antica. Rome: Carocci, 2012 (Coptic text with facing Italian translation, pp. 188–239).

Ehrman, Bart D., and Zlatko Pleše. The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (text and English translation, pp. 389–411).

Jenott, Lance. The “Gospel of Judas”: Coptic Text, Translation, and Historical Interpretation of the “Betrayer’s Gospel.” STAC 64. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011 (text and facing English translation, pp. 134–87).

Kasser, Rodolphe, and Gregor Wurst. The Gospel of Judas, Together with the Letter of Peter to Philip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos: Critical Edition. Introductions, translations, and notes by Rodolphe Kasser, Gregor Wurst, Marvin Meyer, and François Gaudard. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2007.

Krosney, Herbert, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst. “Preliminary Report on New Fragments of Codex Tchacos.” EC 1 (2010): 282–94.

Nagel, Peter. Codex apocryphus gnosticus Novi Testamenti. Vol. 1, Evangelien und Apostelgeschichten aus den Schriften von Nag Hammadi und verwandten Kodizes, koptisch und deutsch. WUNT 326. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014 (Coptic text with facing German translation, pp. 261–307).

Wurst, Gregor. “Addenda et corrigenda to the Critical Edition of the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 503–507 in The Codex Judas Papers. Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex, Rice Univ., Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. Edited by April D. DeConick. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2009.

3.2 Modern Translations

3.2.1 English

Brakke, David. The Gospel of Judas: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries. Yale University Press, 2022 (translation of Jenott’s edition, pp. 81–88).

Brankaer, Johanna, introduction by Bas van Os. The Gospel of Judas. OECGT. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 (critical edition with facing English translation, pp. 61–115).

Brankaer, Johanna, and Hans-Gebhard Bethge, eds. Codex Tchacos: Texte und Analysen. TUGAL 161. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2007.

DeConick, April D. The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says. New York: Continuum, 2007 (pp. 66–91).

Ehrman, Bart D., and Zlatko Pleše. The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 (text and English translation, pp. 389–411).

Gathercole, Simon J. The Gospel of Judas: Rewriting Early Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (translation with commentary, pp. 61–113).

Kasser, Rodolphe, Marvin Meyer, Gregor Wurst, and François Gaudard, trans. “The Gospel of Judas.” Pages 29–53 in The Gospel of Judas. Edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, Gregor Wurst, and and François Gaudard. 2006. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2008.

King, Karen L., trans. “The Gospel of Judas.” Pages 109–22 in Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King. Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity. New York: Viking, 2007.

Meyer, Marvin. “The Gospel of Judas.” Pages 755–70 in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The International Edition. Edited by Marvin Meyer. New York: HarperOne, 2007.

__________. Judas: The Definitive Collection of Gospels and Legends about the Infamous Apostle of Jesus. New York: HarperOne, 2007 (pp. 53–66).

3.2.2 French

Kasser, Rodolphe. “L’Évangile de Judas.” Pages 237–52 in The Gospel of Judas, Together with the Letter of Peter to Philip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos: Critical Edition. Introductions, translations, and notes by Rodolphe Kasser, Gregor Wurst, Marvin Meyer, and F. Gaudard. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2007.

3.2.3 German

Wurst, Gregor. “Das Judasevangelium.” Pages 1220–34 in vol. 1 of Antike christliche Apokryphen in deutscher Übersetzung. 2 vols. AcA I/1-2. Edited by Christoph Markschies and Jens Schröter. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.

3.2.4 Italian

Devoti, Domenico. Vangelo di Giuda. La letteratura Cristiana antica. Rome: Carocci, 2012 (Coptic text with facing Italian translation, pp. 188–239).

3.2.4 Spanish

Montserrat Torrents, José. El Evangelio de Judas: Versión directa del copto, studio y comentario. Madrid: EDAF Arca de Sabuduría, 2006.

3.3 General Works

Adamson, Grant. “Fate Indelible: The Gospel of Judas and Horoscopic Astrology.” Pages 305–24 in The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. Edited by April D. DeConick. NHMS 71. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Albrile, Ezio. “Shining like a Star Man: Iranian Elements in the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 277–91 in The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, Paris, Sorbonne, October 27th–28th, 2006. Edited by Madeleine Scopello. NHMS 62. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Barc, Bernard. “À propos de deux thèmes de l’Évangile de Judas: Nébrô et les étoiles.” Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa 44 (2008): 655–81.

Bermejo Rubio, Fernando. “L’ambiguïté du rire dans l’Évangile de Judas: les limites d’une Umwertung gnostique.” Pages 331–59 in The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, Paris, Sorbonne, October 27th–28th, 2006. Edited by Madeleine Scopello. NHMS 62. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

__________. “Does the Gospel of Judas Overcome Christian Anti-Judaism? Wishful Thinking Versus Textual Facts.” Pages 595–609 in The Apocryphal Gospels Within the Context of Early Christian Theology. Edited by Jens Schröter. BETL 260. Leuven: Peeters, 2013.

__________. “Hipótesis sobre el Evangelio de Judas (I): los problemas hermenéuticos de un neuvo apócrifo.” EstBib 67 (2009): 471–504.

__________. “Hipótesis sobre el Evangelio de Judas (II): ¿una reduction ad absurdum de la soteriología de la Gran Iglesia?” EstBib 67 (2009): 613–51.

__________. “Laughing at Judas: Conflicting Interpretations of a New Gnostic Gospel.” Pages 153–80 in The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. Edited by April D. DeConick. NHMS 71. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Bosson, Nathalie. “L’Évangile de Judas: notes linguistiques et stylistiques.” Pages 3–22 in in The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, Paris, Sorbonne, October 27th–28th, 2006. Edited by Madeleine Scopello. NHMS 62. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Brakke, David. “The Gospel of Judas and the End of Sethian Gnosticism.” Pages 133–52 in Envisioning God in the Humanities: Essays on Christianity, Judaism, and Ancient Religion in Honor of Melissa Harl Sellew. Edited by Courtney J. P. Friesen.Westar Seminar on God and the Human Future. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018.

__________. “‘In the Midst of the Children’: A Proposed Reading of Gospel of Judas 33:18–21.” JCS 22 (2020): 45–67.

Brakke, David, Stephen J. Davis, and Stephen Emmel, eds. From Gnostics to Monastics: Studies in Coptic and Early Christianity in Honor of Bentley Layton. OLA 263. Leuven: Peeters, 2017.

Brankaer, Johanna. Das Evangelium nach Maria und das Evangelium des Judas: Gnostische Blicke auf Jesus und seine Jünger. Kleine Bibliothek der antiken jüdischen und christlichen Literatur. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017.

__________. “Representations of Judaism in the Gospel of Judas: The Church of Judas, the Jew.” Pages 581–94 in The Apocryphal Gospels Within the Context of Early Christian Theology. Edited by Jens Schröter. BETL 260. Leuven: Peeters, 2013.

Cahana, Jonathan. “Salvific Dissolution: The Mystery of the Betrayal Between the New Testament and the Gospel of Judas.” NTS 63 (2017): 111–24.

Cahana-Blum, Jonathan. “Why Are the Disciples ‘Like the Angels’? Redemption Through Sin in the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 63–75 in Telling the Christian Story Differently: Counter-Narratives from Nag Hammadi and Beyond. Edited by Francis Watson and Sarah Parkhouse. London: T&T Clark, 2020.

Cazelais, Serge. “L’Évangile de Judas cinq ans après sa (re)découverte. Mise à jour et perspectives.” Pages 201–24 in En marge du canon: études sur les écrits apocryphes juifs et chrétiens. Edited by André Gagné and Jean-François Racine. L’écriture de la Bible 2. Paris: Cerf, 2012.

__________. “Jewish Apocalyptic and Mystical Background in the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 337–54 in New Vistas on Early Judaism and Christianity: From Enoch to Montréal and Back. Edited by Lorenzo DiTommaso and Gerbern S. Oegema. Jewish and Christian Texts in Contexts and Related Studies. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016.

Clivaz, Claire. “What Is the Current State of Play on Jesus’ Laughter? Reading the Gospel of Judas in the Midst of Scholarly Excitement.” Pages 213–42 in Judasevangelium und Codex Tchacos: Studien zur religionsgeschichtlichen Verortung einer gnostischen Schriftensammlung. Edited by Enno Edzard Popkes and Gregor Wurst. WUNT 297. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.

Creech, David A. “Bodily Delight: The Pro-Life Message of the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 243–51 in Judasevangelium und Codex Tchacos: Studien zur religionsgeschichtlichen Verortung einer gnostischen Schriftensammlung. Edited by Enno Edzard Popkes and Gregor Wurst. WUNT 297. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.

DeConick, April D. “After the Gospel of Judas: Reassessing What We Have Known to Be True About Cain and Judas.” Pages 627–61 in “In Search of Truth.” Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism: Studies for Johannes van Oort at Sixty. Edited by Jacob Albert van den Berg, Annemar Kotz, Tobias Nicklas, and Madeleine Scopello. NHMS 74. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

__________. “Apostles as Archons: The Fight for Authority and the Emergence of Gnosticism in the Tchacos Codex and Other Early Christian Literature.” Pages 243–88 in The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. Edited by April D. DeConick. NHMS 71. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

__________. ed. The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. NHMS 71. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

__________. “The Gospel of Judas: A Parody of Apostolic Christianity.” Pages 96–109 in The Non-Canonical Gospels. Edited by Paul Foster. London: T&T Clark, 2008.

__________. The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says. New York: Continuum, 2007.

__________. “Transgressive Gnosis: Radical Thinking About the Gospel of Judas.” Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa 44 (2008): 555–70.

De Wet, Chris L. “Die uitbeelding van Jesus in die Evangelie van Judas.” LitNet Akademies 16 (2019): 374–96.

Dressler, G. Constanze. “Das Judasevangelium als vorösterliche Offenbarungsschrift: Überlegungen zu gattungsgeschichtlichen Eigentümlichkeiten.” Pages 55–70 in Judasevangelium und Codex Tchacos: Studien zur religionsgeschichtlichen Verortung einer gnostischen Schriftensammlung. Edited by Enno Edzard Popkes and Gregor Wurst. WUNT 297. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.

Dubois, Jean-Daniel. “L’Évangile de Judas et la tradition basilidienne.” Pages 145–54 in in The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, Paris, Sorbonne, October 27th–28th, 2006. Edited by Madeleine Scopello. NHMS 62. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

__________. “The Gospel of Judas and Basilidian Thought.” Pages 121–32 in Judasevangelium und Codex Tchacos: Studien zur religionsgeschichtlichen Verortung einer gnostischen Schriftensammlung. Edited by Enno Edzard Popkes and Gregor Wurst. WUNT 297. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.

Dunderberg, Ismo. “The Eucharist in the Gospels of John, Philip, and Judas.” EC 7 (2016): 484–507.

__________. “Judas’ Anger and the Perfect Human.” Pages 201–21 in The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. Edited by April D. DeConick. NHMS 71. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Ehrman, Bart D. “The Alternative Vision of the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 79–102 in The Gospel of Judas. Edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, Gregor Wurst, and François Gaudard. 2006. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2008.

__________. The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Emmel, Stephen. “The Presuppositions and the Purpose of the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 33–39 in The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, Paris, Sorbonne, October 27th–28th, 2006. Edited by Madeleine Scopello. NHMS 62. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Evans, Craig A. “The Gospel of Judas and the Other Gospels.” Pages 103–24 in The Gospel of Judas. Edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, Gregor Wurst, and François Gaudard. 2006. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2008.

Förster, Hans. “Zur Bedeutung von apophasis im Prolog des Judasevangeliums.” REAug 58 (2012): 217–31.

Förster, Niclas. “The Star of Judas in the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 325–36 in The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. Edited by April D. DeConick. NHMS 71. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Gagné, André. “A Critical Note on the Meaning of apophasis in Gospel of Judas 33:1.” LTP 63 (2007): 377–83.

Gathercole, Simon J. The Gospel of Judas: Rewriting Early Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

__________. “The Gospel of Judas.” ExpT 118 (2007): 209–15.

__________. “The Gospel of Judas: An Unlikely Hero.” Pages 84–95 in The Non-Canonical Gospels. Edited by Paul Foster. London: T&T Clark, 2008.

__________. “Matthean or Lukan Priority? The Use of the NT Gospels in the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 291–302 in Judasevangelium und Codex Tchacos: Studien zur religionsgeschichtlichen Verortung einer gnostischen Schriftensammlung. Edited by Enno Edzard Popkes and Gregor Wurst. WUNT 297. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.

__________. “Paradise, Kingdom, and the Thirteenth Aeon in the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 479–99 in The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. Edited by April D. DeConick. NHMS 71. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Grosso, Matteo. “Il ‘diacono dell’errore’ nel Vangelo di Giuda.” Pages 67–80 in Diakonia, “Diaconæ,” Diaconato: Semantica e storia nei padri della Chiesa; XXXVIII Incontro di studiosi dell’antichità Cristiana, Roma, 7–9 maggio 2009. SEAug 117. Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2010.

__________. “Three Days and Eight Days: Chronology in the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 453–69 in The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. Edited by April D. DeConick. NHMS 71. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Gubar, Susan. Judas: A Biography. New York: Norton, 2009.

Hartenstein, Judith. “Die literarische Gestalt des Judasevangeliums.” Pages 37–54 in Judasevangelium und Codex Tchacos: Studien zur religionsgeschichtlichen Verortung einer gnostischen Schriftensammlung. Edited by Enno Edzard Popkes and Gregor Wurst. WUNT 297. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.

Heininger, Bernhard. “Gnostische Kultkritik. Der ‘Eucharistiedialog’ des Judasevangeliums (EvJud 33,22–34,18).” Pages 421–50 in Kulte, Priester, Rituale: Beiträge zu Kult und Kultkritik im Alten Testament und Alten Orient; Festschrift für Theodor Seidl zum 65. Geburtstag. Edited by Stephanie Ernst and Maria Häusl. Arbeiten zu Text und Sprache im Alten Testament 89. St. Ottilien: Eos, 2010.

Irinschi, Eduard, Lance Jenott, and Philippa Townsend. “The Betrayer’s Gospel.” New York Review of Books 53,10 (2006): 32–37.

Jenott, Lance. “The Book of the Foreigner from Codex Tchacos.” BASP 57 (2020): 235–76.

__________. “The Gospel of Judas 45,6–7 and Enoch’s Heavenly Temple.” Pages 471–77 in The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. Edited by April D. DeConick. NHMS 71. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

__________. The “Gospel of Judas”: Coptic Text, Translation, and Historical Interpretation of the “Betrayer’s Gospel.” STAC 64. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011.

Kaler, Michael. “Just How Close Are the Gnostic Revelation Dialogues to Erotapokriseis Literature, Anyway?” Pages 37–49 in La littérature des questions et réponses dans l’antiquité profane et chrétienne: de l’enseignement à l’exégèse; acts du séminaire sur le genre des questions et réponses tenu à Ottawa les 27 et 28 septembre 2009. Edited by Marie-Pierre Bussières. Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 64. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.

Kasser, Rodolphe. “The Story of Codex Tchacos and the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 57–78 in The Gospel of Judas. Edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, Gregor Wurst, and François Gaudard. 2006. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2008.

__________. “Étude dialectale. Portant globalement sur les quatre textes coptes du Codex Tchacos.” Pages 35–78 in The Gospel of Judas, Together with the Letter of Peter to Philip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos: Critical Edition. Introductions, translations, and notes by Rodolphe Kasser, Gregor Wurst, Marvin Meyer, and F. Gaudard. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2007.

__________. “L’Évangile de Judas, damné, perdu, retrouvé, mais très maltraité.” Comptes rendus des séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 150 (2006): 1561–81.

Kasser, Rodolphe, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst. The Gospel of Judas. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006. 2nd ed. 2008 (with additional essays).

Kerchove, Anna van den. “The Gospel of Judas Versus New Testament Gospels: The Writing of a New Gospel.” Pages 105–23 in Christian Apocrypha: Receptions of the New Testament in Ancient Christian Apocrypha. Edited by Jean-Michel Roessli and Tobias Nicklas. Novum Testamentum Patristicum 26. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014.

__________. “La maison, l’autel et les sacrifices: quelques remarques sur la polémique dans l’Évangile de Judas.” Pages 311–29 in The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, Paris, Sorbonne, October 27th–28th, 2006. Edited by Madeleine Scopello. NHMS 62. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

__________. “Sacrifices de la foule, sacrifice de Judas: L’Évangile de Judas et le theme sacrificiel.” Apocrypha 20 (2009): 213–28.

Kim, David W. “The Judas Proverbs in Tchacos Codex 41–44.” Journal of Religion and Culture 29 (2015): 185–225.

__________. “A Secret Life of Minority: The Sethian Community of Judas in Tchacos Gnostic Literature.” Korean Journal of Religious Studies 74 (2014): 87–119.

__________. “A Sethian Religious Encounter: The Astrological Cosmology of a Gnostic Community in Tchacos Codex.” Pages 203–21 in Religious Encounters in Transcultural Society: Collision, Alteration, and Transmission. Edited by David William Kim. Ethnographies of Religion. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018.

Kim, Seonyoung. “The Gospel of Judas and the Stars.” Pages 293–309 in The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, Paris, Sorbonne, October 27th–28th, 2006. Edited by Madeleine Scopello. NHMS 62. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

King, Karen L. “Christians Who Sacrifice and Those Who Do Not? Discursive Practices, Polemics, and Ritualizing.” Pages 307–18 in “The One Who Sows Bountifully”: Essays in Honor of Stanley K. Stowers. Edited by Caroline Johnson Hodge, Saul M. Olyan, Daniel Ullucci, and Emma Wasserman. BJS 356. Providence: Brown Judaic Studies, 2013.

__________. “Comparison: Categories, Methods, and Mischiefs—The Case of the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 178–91 in Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith. Edited by Willi Braun and Russell T. McCutcheon. London: Equinox, 2008.

__________. “Endings: The Gospel of Mark and the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 55–72 in Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: The Role of Religion in Shaping Narrative Forms. Edited by Ilaria Ramelli and Judith Perkins. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015.

__________. “Martyrdom and Its Discontents in the Tchacos Codex.” Pages 23–42 in The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. Edited by April D. DeConick. NHMS 71. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Kochenash, Michael. “Cross-Purposes in the Gospel of Judas: What Judas Intended for Evil, God Intended for Good.” JECS 28 (2020): 481–500.

Krosney, Herbert. The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006.

Lewis, Nicola Denzey. “Fate and the Wandering Stars: The Jewish Apocalyptic Roots of the Gospel of Judas.” Pages 289–304 in The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex Held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13–16, 2008. Edited by April D. DeConick. NHMS 71. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Lüdemann, Gerd. Das Judas-Evangelium und das Evangelium nach Maria: Zwei gnostische Schriften aus der Frühzeit des Christentums. Stuttgart: Radius, 2006.

Luttikhuizen, Gerard P. “Fragments of a Gnostic Anthropology in the Gospel of Judas: A Comparison with the Secret Book of John.” Pages 303–20 in Judasevangelium und Codex Tchacos: Studien zur religionsgeschichtlichen Verortung einer gnostischen Schriftensammlung. Edited by Enno Edzard Popkes and Gregor Wurst. WUNT 297. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.

Magnusson, Jörgen. “Beyond Righteousness and Transgression: Reading the Gospel of Truth and the Gospel of Judas from an Acosmic Perspective.” Pages 167–93 in Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice: Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond. Edited by Peter Jackson and Anna-Pya Sjödin. Study of Religion in a Global Context. Sheffield: Equinox, 2016.

Marjanen, Antti. “Does the Gospel of Judas Rehabilitate Judas?” Pages 209–24 in Gelitten—Gestorben—Auferstanden: Passions- und Ostertraditionen im antiken Christentum. Edited by Andreas Merkt, Tobias Nicklas, and Joseph Verheyden. WUNT2 273. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.

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