The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Judas Iscariot.

He’s been hated and reviled through the ages as Jesus Christ’s betrayer– the close friend who sells him out for 30 pieces of silver.

But history also records other information about Judas Iscariot. One such reference was written in 180 by an influential Church Father named St. Irenaeus who railed against the Gospel of Judas for depicting the last days of Jesus ...
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Overview

Judas Iscariot.

He’s been hated and reviled through the ages as Jesus Christ’s betrayer– the close friend who sells him out for 30 pieces of silver.

But history also records other information about Judas Iscariot. One such reference was written in 180 by an influential Church Father named St. Irenaeus who railed against the Gospel of Judas for depicting the last days of Jesus from the perspective of the disgraced apostle. In its pages, Judas is Christ’s favorite.

It’s a startlingly different story than the one handed down through the ages. Once it was denounced as heresy, the Gospel of Judas faded from sight. It became one of history’s forgotten manuscripts.

Until now.

In this compelling and exhaustively researched account, Herbert Krosney unravels how the Gospel of Judas was found and its meaning painstakingly teased from the ancient Coptic script that had hid its message for centuries. With all the skills of an investigative journalist and master storyteller, Krosney traces the forgotten gospel’s improbable journey across three continents, a trek that would take it through the netherworld of the international antiquities trade, until the crumbling papyrus is finally made to give up its secrets. The race to discover the Gospel of Judas will go down as one of the great detective stories of biblical archaeology.

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Bart D. Ehrman
Riveting....With the tenacity of a top-flight investigative reporter, Krosney pursued every facet of the discovery and reclamation of the text. With an uncanny knack for piecing together isolated data, he has provided us with scores of details that, were it not for his efforts, would have been lost forever.
—Bart D. Ehrman, author of Lost Christianities

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781426200809
  • Publisher: National Geographic Society
  • Publication date: 7/4/2006
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 535,820
  • File size: 2 MB
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Meet the Author

Herbert Krosney is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker specializing in investigative and historical projects. He has worked for BBC, PBS, and The History Channel as well as National Geographic. He is the author of Beyond Welfare: Poverty in the Supercity; Deadly Business: Legal Deals and Outlaw Weapons; and the co-author of The Islamic Bomb: The Nuclear Threat to Israel and the Middle East. A Harvard graduate, he began his career in newspaper reporting. Married with three children and five grandchildren, he divides his time between homes in New York and Jerusalem.

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is an expert on the history of early Christianity. He is the author of 19 books, including the bestselling Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why.



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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 17, 2011

    Skip this one

    This book is a huge waist of time. The author goes on & on through pointless narrative & uselese info. If you buy this book then open up the back of the book where the actual gospel is. And, if you want to really learn something then buy a book written by an author who was educated in that field of study. Investigative reporting is not a qualification for this subject matter. To learn something read Bart Ehrman, who wrote the forward,or James Kugel.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 4, 2010

    Not what I expected.

    It is just a history of the finding of the Judas gospel. Thought it might give some insight into the gospel itself.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 23, 2010

    A Good Book

    If you want to broaden your perspective, read this book. You will learn something.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 18, 2006

    Well written. Provides a good background for the unfamiliar

    I think the author did a good job in presenting the story of how the Gospel of Judas came about. Not knowing much about the subject matter, I found the book to be a joy to read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 14, 2006

    Fasinating Search of Historical Data

    I have to give the author a credit for excellent job in gathering the data for this historical figure Judas. This book gives me an analogy of the lost Gospel as a piece of evidence to bail out Judas who has been in jail for so long for the crime of betrayal that he probably did not commit.It is fastinating for me to see the endurance of the author to gather all the data. Now it is for us to judge if the evidence is convincing enough for the verdict. Thinking is good for our soul.

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