Product Description: A scroll is discovered, buried for over 1,600 years among the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea. Although fragile and crumbling, the scroll is mostly intact, the faded lines of Koine script still legible. When Father Leo Newman, a priest from Rome, is called to Jerusalem to help decipher the scroll's meaning, he soon discovers that the text appears to be a fifth gospel - one that tells the story of Jesus' life and crucifixion from the point of view of Judas Iscariot...read more

Argues that a gospel told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot exists and, in this interpretation of it, states that Jesus asked Judas to betray him, which presents Judas as not a betrayer, but the one apostle who truly understood Jesus.

Provides the complete text of the long-lost Gospel of Judas, found nearly thirty years ago in Egypt, along with interpretive commentary and annotations, in a study of the disciple, his writings, and their significance. 150,000 first printing.

Product Description: Zwei koptische Handschriften biblischen Inhalts aus der Papyrus-Sammlung der Universität von Michigan werden hier, versehen mit einer deutschen Übersetzung, erstmals ediert. Ausführliche Indices erschließen die beiden Papyri. Papyrus Michigan 3520 enthält die biblischen Bücher Ecclesiastes, 1...read more

A priest commissioned to examine a controversial ancient scroll struggles with his own beliefs and conflicted vows while unraveling the secrets of the supposed 'Gospel of Judas.' By the author of Mendel's Dward. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.