JUDAS: TRAITOR OR HERO?: The Gospel That Split the Scholars and Rewrote History's Most Hated Man (Forbidden Texts) - Softcover

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In 2006, National Geographic announced a discovery that seemed to rewrite two thousand years of Christian history: an ancient gospel in which Judas wasn’t a traitor at all, but Jesus’s most trusted friend. A year later, a Rice University professor said the translation was wrong — badly wrong, in ways that reversed the text’s actual meaning. Neither side has fully backed down since.

This is the real story of the Gospel of Judas — a text condemned by name in 180 AD, buried for seventeen centuries, stolen, smuggled, and left to decay in a Long Island bank vault before the world finally saw it.

Inside this book you’ll discover: • The manuscript’s discovery near El Minya and its decades lost in the antiquities market • Why the 2006 National Geographic translation portrayed Judas as a hero — and why a detailed scholarly rebuttal argued the opposite • The specific Coptic words at the center of the dispute: “spirit” or “demon,” “would ascend” or “would not ascend,” and a single preposition that changes everything • Why the “heroic Judas” reading took hold so quickly • Where scholarship stands today — and why there is still no consensus nearly two decades later

Written in the same fast, direct style as The Book of Enoch and The Gospel They Buried, this book presents both sides of a genuine, unresolved scholarly dispute without claiming false certainty. It describes what the Gospel of Judas says and how it was received — without taking a theological position on whether its claims are true.

If you thought you already knew how Judas’s story ended, this is where it gets complicated.

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