The "new" Gospel of Judas fragments (from Codex Tchacos)

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The "new" Gospel of Judas fragments (from Codex Tchacos)

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This is basically old news (2010), but the URL of the online PDF has moved about.

Some fragments of Codex Tchacos containing gJudas were recovered since 2006. A preliminary translation for private use only, here:

https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/relig ... ontext.pdf

Coptic text here:

http://www.kthf.uni-augsburg.de/prof_do ... nte_IV.pdf

Document with "announcement" from Meyer on the find here:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... 8373,d.cGU

Original 2006 PDF from National Geographic here:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lostg ... fJudas.pdf

Story here:

http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blog ... ments.html
http://forbiddengospels.blogspot.com/20 ... -news.html

Also, some criticism of the translations made by the team, from Craig Evans, here:

http://www.craigaevans.com/Evans-BBR_204.pdf
https://www.academia.edu/7760436/Unders ... l_of_Judas

And an even more recent fragment of Codex Tchacos (but not, apparently, gJudas) reported here:

http://alinsuciu.com/2012/10/10/newly-f ... x-tchacos/

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Meyer did publish a new translation incorporating the new fragments before he died:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Gospel-Judas- ... 1610973712

It is a pretty slim volume, although it does have a short introduction and a pretty decent number footnotes. As I recall, I think he stuck to his original position on most of the translation issues that people had brought up after the initial 2006 publication, sometimes defending them in the introduction or notes, but I'd have to read it again to be sure.
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Bertie wrote:Meyer did publish .

Good scholar :thumbup:
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Ancient Christian Magic:
Coptic Texts of Ritual Power
Edited by Marvin W. Meyer & Richard Smith

The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts Paperback – April 9, 1999
by Marvin W. Meyer (Editor)

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