The "Gospel" of Judas?

Gimme' a break .....

"The secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot during a week, three days before he celebrated Passover."

One feature of the gnostic gospels is that they always announce their supposed author to establish their bona fides. They are always full of wink-wink, nudge-nudge secret knowledge, to which yes! now you too! can be privy! You can be in with the in crowd. Contrast that with the matter of fact story-telling, parables, and sayings in the standard gospels.

The Gospel of Judas is only one of many texts discovered in the last 65 years, including the gospels of Thomas, Mary Magdalene and Philip, believed to be written by Gnostics.

The Gnostics' beliefs were often viewed by bishops and early church leaders as unorthodox, and they were often denounced as heretics. Well, yes; because they were,in fact, unorthodox heretics. They (the Gnostics) came a generation and a half after the standard gospels were in common use. Had these woo-woos come first, the "orthodox" would have been heretics.

Finally, there's this bimbo who I've seen featured on at least one "news" show .... Elaine Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton who specializes in studies of the Gnostics, said in a statement, "These discoveries are 'exploding the myth' of a monolithic religion, and demonstrating how diverse ? and fascinating ? the early Christian movement really was." I'm not sure who had this myth. It was well known since the beginning that there were disagreements, some broadening into heresies and schisms. Otherwise, why were there the Ancient Churches of the Orient, the Orthodox Church, the Armenian Church, the Coptic Church, the Roman Church, etc? Monolithic, she says. A "professor of religion at Princeton" ought to know better than that.

Seems that way to me, too.