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JUDAS, GOSPEL OF

A lost (Cainite?) apocryphon of the mid-2nd century attested by Irenaeus and Epiphanius. Irenaeus (Adv. haer. 1.31.1) describes the work as transmitted by certain gnostic groups who valued its secret teaching as coming from the singular witness of “the betrayer Judas,” who “alone recognized the truth and completed the mystery of the betrayal.”

Bibliography. B. Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures (Garden City, 1987), 181; R. McL. Wilson, “The Gospel of Judas,” in New Testament Apocrypha, ed. W. Schneemelcher and Wilson, rev. ed. 1 (Louisville, 1991), 386-87.

Irving A. Sparks






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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