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The Gospel According to Judas
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 People always knew there was a "Gospel According to Judas" but only several decades ago did someone find it. For hundreds of years it was buried in an Egyptian desert, for several more it was kept in American safety deposit boxes and an Ohio refrigerator. Now its been rescued from obscurity and the flavor of the week in media hype. Today we'll explore Judas, what we know about him, what we don't, what it says in the Gospel and what it might say about our current views of Christianity. Laura's guests are Father Benedict Guevin, Associate Professor of Theology at St. Anselm College and James Robinson, Author of "The Secrets of Judas", Founding Director Emeritus of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity and Professor Emeritus at Claremont Graduate University. Web resources:
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I was really disappointed in today's show, or should I say with the guests on today's show who seemed to think they were on The 700 Club and not NPR. I cannot take seriously any so-called biblical scholars who show such disdain for alternative points of view regarding The Bible and Christianity, who have the gall to refer to "gnostic mythology" and biblical "historical fact" in the same sentence. Not once did anyone on the show concede that The Bible can no more be taken for historical truth than The Iliad (though I suspect that might have been too much to expect). And in the end we all got proselytized to! How lovely and how academic!