“And it rushed in”: A new proposal for interpreting GJudas 57,24
The present argument proposes a new interpretation for GJudas 57,24, a famously difficult passage in which someone enters a luminous cloud. While scholarship is divided over whether the phrase ⲁϥϥⲱⲕ applies to Judas or Jesus, there is a previously overlooked third option that is syntactically close...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2021
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Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
Year: 2021, Volume: 112, Issue: 2, Pages: 238-250 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gospel of Judas
/ Judas Iscariot
/ Cosmology
/ Astral world
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
Astral Determinism
B Cosmology B Gospel of Judas B Judas Iscariot |
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| Summary: | The present argument proposes a new interpretation for GJudas 57,24, a famously difficult passage in which someone enters a luminous cloud. While scholarship is divided over whether the phrase ⲁϥϥⲱⲕ applies to Judas or Jesus, there is a previously overlooked third option that is syntactically close to hand: it is Judas’s star. This translation, further, fits with important themes in the Gospel of Judas, both theological and narratological. |
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| ISSN: | 1613-009X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/znw-2021-0014 |