Biblical scholars and archaeologists have restored and authenticated the Gospel of Judas, said to be "the most significant archaeological discovery in 60 years." The Gospel offers a view of Jesus quite unlike that offered in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. There, Judas is a condemned traitor. In the Gospel of Judas, Judas is Jesus's closest friend, "someone who understands Christ's true message." In this account, Jesus asks Judas to sell him out; he prefers that the "liberation from his human body" be put in place by a friend rather than an enemy. (I have a feeling this Gospel will be used by supporters of assisted suicide to give Biblical creedence to their conviction.).
The Gospel of Judas will be the topic of a special National Geographic television program this Sunday (7 p.m. CST).
As for me, I'm still trying to decide if Johnny Cash's version of Personal Jesus is better than the Depeche Mode original.
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...and Mary Magdalene as even closer still?
I believe that the author of The Last Temptations of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis, was excommunicated from the Greek Orthodox Church because of his reformulation of the Jesus and Judas relationship. The dream sequence with Mary M. probably didn't help his excommunication file either.
So you're saying that a group of people who choose to depict a Middle Eastern man as a pale-skinned blue-eyed blond might tinker with the facts a bit?
Hmmmm....
frank: I would have to agree with you, very much so!
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