The Gospel of Judas ─ Together With the Letter of Peter to Phillip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos

For the first time in a single volume, discover the complete text of Codex Tchacos?the remarkable ancient papyrus book that contains the Gospel of Judas. Hidden for 1,600 years in an Egyptian cave, only to be found, traded, and all but destroyed before its restoration began in 2001, Codex Tchacos contains four texts that shed important light on the ancient world and the emergence of Christianity.

Featuring beautifully rendered, full-color photographs of the original papyrus pages alongside the Coptic text and its English translation, this critical edition provides everything needed for a full examination of the Codex. The Letter of Peter to Philip provides a mystical, Gnostic picture of Jesus; the text entitled James presents Jesus discussing the meaning of life and death with his brother James; the Gospel of Judas casts a new light on Judas' betrayal; and the previously unknown book of Allogenes, though fragmentary, portrays Jesus as a stranger who brings light to a world of darkness. Ideal for the scholar and layperson alike, these texts are published here by an international team of scholars and supplemented by insightful introductions, indices, and other revealing, explanatory essays.

RUDOLPHE KASSER is one of the world's leading Coptologists. He is professor on the Faculty of the Arts at the University of Geneva. He has organized the restoration and prepared the editio princeps of the codex containing the Gospel of Judas. GREGOR WURST is a professor of ecclesiastical history and patristics at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of University of Augsburg, Germany. He is widely published in the field of Coptic studies. He is one of the two editors of the original Coptic of the Gospel of Judas and one of the translators of the text.
MARVIN MEYER is Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies and director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Chapman University, Orange, California. He is one of the foremost scholars on Gnosticism, the Nag Hammadi library, and texts about Jesus outside the New Testament. He is on eof the translators of the codex and the author of The Gnostic Gospels and The Unknown Sayings of Jesus.