The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot
A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed

This is a bit niche, but if you're intrigued by early Gnostic writings this might interest you. And yeah, a lot of people think Gnostic is too broad a term, but I agree with Ehrman that it covers the same kind of ground as Christian. All Gnostics were/are not the same, but if you stand a Mormon and a......more

Some time in the middle to late 1970s an ancient papyrus codex, still bound in its original leather, was discovered in a desert tomb near El Minya, Egypt. Although its significance wouldn’t be confirmed until years later, it now stands as an authenticated Coptic translation of a Greek “gnostic” gosp......more

By now of course, you've all heard about the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. When this book was written, it had only been a year or two since the National Geographic exposé of it. They wanted to be sure that it was authentic - as in an authentic copy from the second century - and Bart D. Ehrman was one of......more

This was a fascinating read. I'd never heard of this Gospel until I came across this book. Apparently it was discovered in the 70s, but not translated or published until the early 2000s. It is genuinely old (radiocarbon dated to the late 3rd century AD), and was written about Judas Iscariot, rather......more

Once again, someone found some scraps of parchment with the name of Judas and the whole concept of Christianity is therefor attacked. Dr. Ehrman starts out by saying that the writings were not by Judas nor probably written by anyone who knew Judas. He then goes on to say that they were probably gnos......more