Download or read book I Judas the 5th Gospel written by Bob Mayer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a massive object appears in space heading directly toward Earth, the Brotherhood heralds it as Wormwood, one of the signs the Rapture and it's just three days away. They have been preparing to implement the Great Commission as designated by Jesus-where everyone on the planet must hear the word of God before the end in order to be saved. They will use advanced technology to send that message directly into the minds of every human on the planet. The question is: will the message kill everyone who gets it or save them? Believing Judas, the anti-Christ is alive and well and living in the Amazon, they also send a team of assassins up the Amazon to find the Great Betrayer and kill him before Armageddon. Opposing the Brotherhood is the Triumvirate of the Illuminati. They believe they must stop the Great Commission and the assassination team. At the same time they rush to gather nuclear weapons and launch missiles into space to divert the Intruder, as they call the object, believing it to be a natural phenomenon over which technology will prevail. As the object nears Earth, both sides become locked in a world-wide battle for the future of the human race, as Judas prepares in the jungle for the Second Coming, the fulfillment of his Fifth Gospel. Which is not at all what anyone expects.For more information visit bobmayer.com

Download or read book Reading Judas written by Elaine Pagels and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller interpreting the controversial long-lost gospel The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas is a source of fascination for biblical scholars and lay Christians alike. Now two leading experts on the Gnostic gospels tackle the important questions posed by its discovery, including: How could any Christian imagine Judas to be Jesus' favorite? And what kind of vision of God does the author offer? Working from Karen L. King's brilliant new translation, Elaine Pagels and King provide the context necessary for considering its meaning. Reading Judas plunges into the heart of Christianity itself and will stand as the definitive look at the gospel for years to come.

Download or read book The Gospel of Judas written by Marvin W. Meyer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gospel of Judas: On a Night with Judas Iscariot presents a fresh translation of the Gospel of Judas, with introduction, commentary, and notes. Originally published with considerable international fanfare in 2006, the Gospel of Judas has prompted a vibrant discussion among scholars and other interested readers about the meaning of the text and the place of Judas Iscariot in the story of Jesus and the history of the church. Meyer, a member of the original research team assembled by the National Geographic Society to edit, translate, and publish the Gospel of Judas and the remaining texts in what is now called Codex Tchacos, here offers an up-to-date and thoroughly accessible translation of the Gospel of Judas, expanded with new fragments of the text and informed by the latest scholarship. He adds reminiscences of the work on the Coptic text when it first was coming to light in 2005 and 2006. This book also includes reflections on the extensive literature, beyond the Gospel of Judas, on the figure of Judas Iscariot, with suggestions for a literary interpretation of Judas--an interpretation that may have a dramatic impact upon our understanding of the role of Judas Iscariot in the story of Jesus's passion.

Download or read book The Gospel of Judas written by Rodolphe Kasser and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive commentary on the ancient document containing what some scholars believe to be a lost gospel told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot.

Download or read book Book of Judas written by Linda Stasi and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hunt is on for the apocryphal Gospel of Judas in the thriller that Lisa Scottoline says "you won't be able to put down," from celebrated New York Daily News columnist Linda Stasi

Download or read book Judas written by Marvin W. Meyer and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judas Iscariot has been demonized as the quintessential traitor, the disciple who betrayed his master for the infamous thirty pieces of silver. But the recent sensational discovery and publication of the long lost Gospel of Judas, with its remarkable portrayal of Judas Iscariot as the disciple closest to Jesus, raises serious new questions. Was Judas the only member of the Twelve who truly understood Jesus? Did Jesus secretly collaborate with Judas to set in motion the series of events that would redeem all of humankind? In search of answers, Marvin Meyer, one of the world's leading experts on the Gospel of Judas presents a collection of the earliest accounts of Judas, which together paint a fuller portrait of this most enigmatic disciple. This book presents the essential texts that deal with the figure of Judas, including New Testament writings, Gnostic documents, and other early and later Christian literature. These are the earliest known testimonies about Judas and include selections from the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, the Acts of the Apostles, and relevant passages from Paul. The centerpiece of the book is the Gospel of Judas, followed by excerpts from three other Gnostic texts—the Dialogue of the Savior, the Concept of Our Great Power, and the "Round Dance of the Cross"—which may shed new light on the figure of Judas. A series of additional writings on Judas produced over the centuries provide glimpses of the vilification of Judas and the emergence of anti-Semitic themes. Meyer offers evidence of traitors before Judas—the Genesis story of Joseph's brothers who sold him into slavery, the duplicitous friend of the poet in Psalm 41, and Melanthius the goatherd in Homer's Odyssey—all of which raise the question of whether the story of Judas Iscariot could be simply a piece of religious fiction derived from earlier stories. Judas provides a rich collection of original sources that tell the story of Christianity's most infamous figure, offering the fullest understanding of Judas Iscariot's undeniable importance in the climax of Jesus's life.

Download or read book The Gospel of Judas written by Lance Jenott and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2011 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Appendix A" (p. [134]-187) contains the Coptic text of the Gospel of Judas as transcribed from the Codex Tchacos, with English translation on facing pages.

Download or read book The Lost Gospel written by Herbert Krosney and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of the Gospel of Judas Iscariot and the Herculean efforts to conserve it and parse its meaning for future generations.

Download or read book The Gospel of Judas Together with the Letter of Peter to Philip James and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos written by Rodolphe Kasser and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds new light on the ancient world and the beginnings of Christianity. Featuring full-color photographs of the original papryus pages alongside the Coptic text and its English translation, this book provides a mystical, gnostic picture of Jesus. [from publisher description].

Download or read book The Gospel of Judas written by Simon Gathercole and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newly-discovered ancient text of the Gospel of Judas offers a picture of Judas Iscariot radically different from the Church's traditional understanding of him as the arch-traitor. Simon Gathercole's book, which includes a translation and a running commentary, gets behind the hype which the Gospel of Judas has attracted.

Download or read book The Gospel of Judas written by David Brakke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation and commentary on the extracanonical Coptic text that describes Judas' special status among Jesus' disciples Since its publication in 2006, The Gospel of Judas has generated remarkable interest and debate among scholars and general readers alike. In this Coptic text from the second century C.E., Jesus engages in a series of conversations with his disciples and with Judas, explaining the origin of the cosmos and its rulers, the existence of another holy race, and the coming end of the current world order. In this new translation and commentary, David Brakke addresses the major interpretive questions that have emerged since the text's discovery, exploring the ways that The Gospel of Judas sheds light on the origins and development of gnostic mythology, debates over the Eucharist and communal authority, and Christian appropriation of Jewish apocalyptic eschatology. The translation reflects new analyses of the work's genre and structure, and the commentary and notes provide thorough discussions of the text's grammar and numerous lacunae and ambiguities.

Download or read book The Judas Gospel written by Nicholas Perrin and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What isThe Judas Gospel? Does it tell us anything true about Jesus or Judas?Nicholas Perrin offers a helpful assessment ofThe Gospel of Judas, released by the National Geographic Society in the spring of 2006. Not a gospel at all, he gives a brief history of its origin and discovery, an overview of its contents, and an appraisal of its historical value for first-century conclusions about Jesus and Judas and for second-century Gnosticism.A great aid to witnessing about the truth of Scripture and the heresies that would try to overcome it.

Download or read book The Fifth Gospel written by Stephen J. Patterson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1945, at the base of cliffs that run along the Nile River near the modern-day town of Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian farmer discovered, in a sealed jar, thirteen ancient Coptic codices containing more than fifty separate tracts. This discovery represented arguably the most significant manuscript discovery of the twentieth century for the study of the New Testament and Christian origins. Of all the texts in this Nag Hammadi Library, none has been more celebrated than the Gospel of Thomas--a Gospel that has played a crucial role in the newly emerging view of early Christianity as a very diverse phenomenon and in the recent revival of historical Jesus studies. Now, after more than fifty years of study, the best text and the best translation of Thomas are presented here in user-friendly form by the Berlin Working Group for Coptic Gnostic Writings, with Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson. In addition, two essays have been included for persons who may be unfamiliar with this new Gospel or with events that led to its discovery and publication. The first, by Patterson, is a general introduction to the Gospel of Thomas as it appears fifty years after its discovery. The second, by Robinson, tells the fascinating story of that discovery itself by one who was directly involved in bringing this new Gospel to light. An annotated list "for further reading" completes the volume. Stephen J. Patterson is Associate Professor of New Testament at Eden Theological Seminary and author of The God of Jesus: The Historical Jesus and the Search for Meaning (Trinity Press). James M. Robinson is the former director of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Professor Emeritus at The Claremont Graduate School, and editor of The Nag Hammadi Library.

Download or read book The Fifth Gospel New Edition written by Stephen J. Patterson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1945, at the base of cliffs that run along the Nile River near the modern-day town of Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian farmer discovered a sealed jar containing thirteen ancient Coptic codices. This discovery represented arguably the most significant manuscript discovery of the twentieth century for the study of the New Testament and Christian origins. Of all the texts found none has been more important than the Gospel of Thomas for our understanding of early Christianity. This classic book presents the best text and the best translation of Thomas in user-friendly form. Additional chapters provide a general introduction to the Gospel of Thomas and tell the fascinating story of that discovery itself by one who was directly involved in bringing this new Gospel to light. An annotated list "for further reading" completes the volume. This new edition features updated material which takes account of recent research on the gospel of Thomas. The translation has been refined at points, and the bibliographical material updated.

Download or read book The Fifth Gospel written by Mario Pomilio and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mario Pomilio, author of The Fifth Gospel, was a novelist, editor, and literary critic. The Fifth Gospel tells the story of a search for a message of hope and salvation. Umberto C. Mariani and Alice J. Mariani have translated it into English for the first time.

Download or read book The Gospel of Judas written by Mark M. Mattison and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forged in the flames of controversy and rejected by the very church authorities it criticized, the Gospel of Judas was once believed to be irretrievably lost to history. Its rediscovery in Egypt in the 1970s and initial publication in 2006 ignited an intense debate about Christian origins and meaning. How could a Gospel about Jesus have been written in the name of his greatest nemesis? What does it really say about Judas, about Jesus, about the church – and what does it mean for us today? Inside the pages of this enigmatic Gospel we can explore unfamiliar terrain, the outer limits of early Christian experience – and may just discover something about ourselves in the process. Note: This fresh new translation of Judas' Gospel includes the more recently recovered fragments published in 2010.

Download or read book The fifth Gospel written by Stephen J. Patterson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best text and the best translation of the Gospel of Thomas are presented in this user-friendly form. In addition, two essays have been included for those who may be unfamiliar with this new Gospel or with the events that led to its discovery and publ