Wrestling with God's video: The Gospel of Judas - Bart Ehrman Darrell Bock

"The reappearance of the Gospel of Judas will rank among the greatest finds from Christian antiquity and is without doubt the most important archaeological discovery of the past 60 years. What will make this gospel famous—or infamous, perhaps—is that it portrays Judas quite differently from anything we previously knew. Here he is not the evil, corrupt, devil-inspired follower of Jesus who betrayed his master; he is instead Jesus' closest intimate and friend, the one who understood Jesus better than anyone else, who turned Jesus over to the authorities because Jesus wanted him to do so. This gospel has a completely different understanding of God, the world, Christ, salvation, human existence—not to mention of Judas himself—than came to be embodied in the Christian creeds and canon. It will open up new vistas for understanding Jesus and the religious movement he founded." —Bart D. Ehrman He has published extensively in the fields of the New Testament and Early Christianity, having written or edited 19 books, numerous articles and dozens of anthologies of early Christian writings. Among his most recent books are Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Oxford Press), Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It Into the New Testament (Oxford) and Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why The Tenets of Gnosticism As we have seen, Gnostic Christians maintained that in the beginning there was only One. This One God was totally spirit, totally perfect, incapable of description, beyond attributes and qualities. This God is not only unknown to humans; he is unknowable. The Gnostic texts do not explain why he is unknowable, except to suggest that he is so "other" that explanations—which require making something unknown known by comparing it to something else—simply cannot work.