For 2,000 years, Judas has been reviled for betraying Jesus. Now a newly translated ancient document seeks to tell his side of the story. The "Gospel of Judas" tells a far different tale from the four ...

PILATE LIGHT: The recent unveiling of the Gospel of Judas has stirred discussion — and argument — about the role played by Judas Iscariot and others in the tale of Jesus’ trial and crucifixion. All ...

RBL: There have been a number of books on the Gospel of Judas since it was announced. How does your book differ from the ones published by Bart Ehrman, James Robinson and others? Pagels: They differ ...

Three years ago this month the long-lost Gospel of Judas made its modern debut. One of four texts in an ancient book unearthed in Egypt in the 1970s, it did not begin its final journey toward ...

This accessible, engaging book has Princeton religion professor Pagels (The Gnostic Gospels; Beyond Belief) in a dream team pairing with King (The Gospel of Mary of Magdala), who teaches ...

Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer and Gregory Wurst, eds. The media campaign surrounding publication of the ancient Gospel of Judas is well launched with a television broadcast and two books sponsored by ...

The National Geographic Society released the manuscript of what is called “The Gospel of Judas” yesterday. By National Geographic’s own account, a team first assembled by the Maecenas Foundation has ...

One of the most significant biblical finds of the last century," hypes the producer's Web site,"— a lost gospel that could challenge what is believed about the story of Judas and his betrayal of Jesus ...

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John make up the four accepted Gospels of the Christian New Testament. Now a new gospel has been unveiled by the National Geographic Society — one that focuses on the story of ...

In a few weeks, we’ll be bombarded with exhortations to see the movie of The Da Vinci Code, an entertaining yarn riddled with historical errors. Just in time for Easter, though, the focus isn’t on ...

Religion scholars Elaine Pagels and Karen King's new book, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, interprets and... Religion scholars Elaine Pagels and Karen King's new ...