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In this new play he explores Judas's motives in betraying his master. It has also been speculated, on the basis of textual analysis concerning features of dialect and Greek loan words, that the Coptic text contained in the codex may be a translation from an older Greek manuscript dating, at the earliest, to approximately AD — The Gospel of Judas consists of 16 chapters which document Jesus's teaching about spiritual matters and cosmology.
According to the text, Judas is the only one of Jesus's disciples who accurately understands the words of his master. This Gospel contains few narrative elements; essentially, the Gospel records how Judas was taught by Jesus the true meaning of his message.
The Gospel contains ideas which contradicted those circulating in the early Christian church. The author says that God is essentially a 'luminous cloud of light' who exists in an imperishable realm.
At the beginning of time, God created a group of angels and lower gods. Twelve angels were willed to 'come into being [to] rule over chaos and the [underworld]'.
Gradually, humanity began to forget its divine origins and some of Adam's descendants Cain and Abel became embroiled in the world's first murder. Many humans came to think that the imperfect physical universe was the totality of creation, losing their knowledge of God and the imperishable realm.
Jesus was sent as the Son of the true God, not of one of the lesser gods. His mission was to show that salvation lies in connecting with the God within the man. Through embracing the internal God, the man can then return to the imperishable realm. Eleven of the disciples Jesus chose to spread his message misunderstood the central tenets of his teaching. They were obsessed with the physical world of the senses.
The author says that they continued to practise religious animal sacrifice, which pleased the lower gods but did not help to foster a connection with the true God. They wrongly taught that those martyred in the name of Christ would be bodily resurrected.
In contrast, Jesus is able to teach Judas the true meaning of his life, ministry and death. Mankind can be divided into two races, or groups. Those who are furnished with the immortal soul, like Judas, can come to know the God within and enter the imperishable realm when they die. Those who belong to the same generation of the other eleven disciples cannot enter the realm of God and will die both spiritually and physically at the end of their lives.
As practices that are intertwined with the physical world, animal sacrifice and a communion ceremony centered around 'cannibalism' the consumption of Jesus' flesh and blood are condemned as abhorrent. The other Gospels say that Jesus had to die in order to atone for the sins of humanity.
The author of Judas expresses the view that this sort of substitutionary justice pleases the lower gods and angels. The true God is gracious and thus does not demand any sacrifice. She said that the Gospel of Judas contains no new historical information concerning Jesus or Judas. Historians Elaine Pagels and Karen Leigh King argue that a more nuanced, contextualized understanding of alternative interpretations of the Christian tradition should inform discussions of Gnosticism.
In the centuries following Jesus's death, many differing views of the meaning of his life and death existed. Nicene Christianity i. Learn more Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a. Guirgis a playwright to reckon with in recent years: a fierce and questing mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for identifying with life's losers and an unforced eloquence that finds the poetry in lowdown street talkMr.
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