![]() ![]() ![]() While its true god has no description beyond an invisible spirit dwelling on high, ‘whom no angel eye has seen,’ it parodies the creator god with the name Saklas, which means ‘Fool’ in Aramaic. It interprets the Bible’s creator god as a malicious angel who rebelled against the true god to establish his own world order. Its theology and sectarian perspective stand in stark contrast to what became Christian orthodoxy. ![]() The Gospel of Judas was originally composed in Greek, but is preserved only in Coptic translation, in a single manuscript discovered in Egypt in the 1970s, and first published in 2006 by the National Geographic Society. David Brakke, The Gospel of Judas: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, Anchor Yale Bible 45, Yale University Press, 2022, 320 pp ![]()
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