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Jesus Betrayed
“But you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that
clothes me.’ It has all the makings of a modern mystery novel: an Egyptian antiquities dealer, a scholar of Coptic texts, an ancient manuscript and a forgotten safe deposit box in New York City. The discovery of the Gospel of Judas—deteriorated pages of folded papyrus considered lost for nearly 1,700 years—has been heralded as one of the most important Biblical discoveries in our time. But what does it say? And, more importantly, what does it mean? Renowned scholars of the Gnostic texts, Karen King and Elaine Pagels, take a closer look at this new find and its ramifications for telling the story of early Christianity. They believe that it must be viewed as one of a collection of remarkable early Christian texts that competed to be the voice of authority. Come hear the lost voice of Judas speak again and learn how this text helped shape what Christianity would become. Karen King is Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School and author of The Gospel of Mary of Magdala. Harrington Spear Professor of Religion at Princeton University, Elaine Pagels is author of five books including the bestselling Beyond Belief. Their new book Reading Judas is one of the first to place the new Gospel in context within the early Christian church.
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