and showed some of the papyrus pages for the first time." On April 6, 2006, "the National Geographic Society in the US published the first translation of the text from Coptic to English. The antiquities dealer became concerned with the manuscript's deteriorating condition and transferred possession to the Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art in Basel, Switzerland, in 2000, to oversee its preservation, translation and hopeful sale. It was named Codex Tchacos by its penultimate owner, antiquities dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, in honor of her father, Dimaratos Tchacos. Background įirst page of the Gospel of Judas ( of Codex Tchacos)Ī leather-bound Coptic language papyrus document surfaced during the 1970s near Beni Masar, Egypt. April Deconick challenges the National Geographic interpretation of the Gospel of Judas, contending instead that the text was written by a group of Sethians as a parody about a "demon" Judas. It asserts that the other disciples had not learned the true Gospel, which Jesus taught only to Judas, the sole follower belonging to (or set apart from) the "holy generation" among the disciples. In contrast to the canonical gospels, which paint Judas as a betrayer who delivered Jesus to the authorities for crucifixion in exchange for money, the Gospel of Judas portrays Judas's actions as done in obedience to instructions given to him by Jesus. An English translation was first published in early 2006 by the National Geographic Society. It has been suggested that the text derives from an earlier manuscript in the Greek language. The only copy of it known to exist is a Coptic language text that has been carbon dated to 280 AD, plus or minus 60 years. Given that it includes late 2nd-century theology, it is widely thought to have been composed in the 2nd century (prior to 180 AD) by Gnostic Christians, rather than the historic Judas himself. The content consists of conversations between Jesus and Judas Iscariot. The Gospel of Judas is a non-canonical Gnostic gospel.
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