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Title Codex Judas papers : proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13-16, 2008 / edited by April D. DeConick
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 637 pages) : illustrations
Series Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, 0929-2470 ; v. 71
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 71.
Contents The Codex Judas Congress and its proceedings / April D. DeConick -- The Tchacos codex : another document of the gnostics? / Alastair Logan -- Marytrdom [i.e. Martyrdom] and its discontents in the Tchacos codex / Karen L. King -- Irenaeus on the Gospel of Judas : an analysis of the evidence in context / Johannes van Oort -- When the Sethians were young : the Gospel of Judas in the second century / Marvin Meyer -- The Gospel of Judas : its protagonist, its composition, and its community / Gesine Schenke Robinson -- The Sethian myth in the Gospel of Judas : soteriology or demonology? / John D. Turner -- Judas Iscariot in the Gospel of Judas / Birger A. Pearson -- Laughing at Judas : conflicting interpretations of a new Gnostic gospel / Fernando Bermejo Rubio -- "You will become the thirteenth" : the identity of Judas in the Gospel of Judas / Kevin Sullivan -- Judas' anger and the perfect human / Ismo Dunderberg -- Rabbi Yehuda versus Judas Iscariot : the Gospel of Judas and apocryphal Passion stories / Pierluigi Piovanelli -- Apostles as archons : the fight for authority and the emergence of Gnosticism in the Tchacos Codex and other early Christian literature / April D. DeConick -- Fate and the wandering stars : the Jewish apocalyptic roots of the Gospel of Judas / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Fate indelible : the Gospel of Judas and horoscopic astrology / Grant Adamson -- The star of Judas in the Gospel of Judas / Niclas Förster -- The God of Jerusalem as the pole dragon : the conceptual background of the cosmic axis in James / Franklin Trammel -- Baptism and the Gospel of Judas : a preliminary inquiry / Elaine Pagels -- Stop sacrificing! : the metaphor of sacrifice in the Gospel of Judas / Bas van Os -- Whose Savior? : salvation, damnation, and the race of Adam in the Gospel of Judas / Johanna Brankaer -- From perplexity to salvation : the Gospel of Judas read in light of Platonic didactic strategies / Tage Petersen -- "What is the advantage?" (Gos. Jud. 46.16) : text, context, intertext / Louis Painchaud and Serge Cazelais -- Three days and eight days : chronology in the Gospel of Judas / Matteo Grosso -- The Gospel of Judas 45,6-7 and Enoch's heavenly temple / Lance Jenott -- Paradise, kingdom, and the thirteenth aeon in the Gospel of Judas / Simon Gathercole -- Addenda et corrigenda to the critical edition of the Gospel of Judas / Gregor Wurst -- The significance of the Tchacos Codex for understanding the first Apocalypse of James / Wolf-Peter Funk -- The seven women disciples : in the two versions of the first Apocalypse of James / Antti Marjanen
Summary This book contains the proceedings from the Codex Judas Congress held to discuss the newly-restored Tchacos Codex. Since this codex is a newly-conserved ancient book of Christian manuscripts which had yet to be discussed collaboratively by a body of scholars, this book is nothing less than a landmark in Gnostic studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Judas Iscariot -- Congresses
SUBJECT Judas Iscariot fast
Gospel of Judas -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
Codex Tchacos -- Congresses
Codex Tchacos fast
Gospel of Judas fast
Evangelium des Judas gnd
Codex Tchacos gnd
Apokryphe Evangelien gnd
Subject Gnosticism -- Congresses
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies.
Gnosticism
Theologie
Frühchristentum
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author De Conick, April D.
International Congress on the Tchacos Codex (2008 : Houston, Tex.)
ISBN 9789004181410
9004181415
9789004181403
9004181407
1282952250
9781282952256