![]() ![]() In 2001, it finally found its way into the hands of a team of experts who would painstakingly reassemble and restore it. Discovered by farmers in the 1970s in Middle Egypt, the codex containing the gospel was bought and sold by antiquities traders, secreted away, and carried across three continents, all the while suffering damage that reduced much of it to fragments. In contrast to the New Testament Gospels, Judas Iscariot is presented as a role model for all those who wish to be disciples of Jesus and is the one apostle who truly understands Jesus. In this radical reinterpretation, Jesus asks Judas to betray him. And far from being a villain, the Judas that emerges in its pages is a hero. Here was a gospel that had not been seen since the early days of Christianity, and which few experts had even thought existed?a gospel told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, history's ultimate traitor. ![]() ![]() When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded. ![]()
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