The Codex Judas papers: proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13 - 16, 2008

The codex Judas congress and its proceedings / April D. DeConick Abbreviations -- Identity and community -- The Tchacos codex : another document of the gnostics? / Alastair Logan -- Marytrdom and its discontents in the Tchacos codex / Karen L. King -- Irenaeus on the Gospel of Judas : an analysis of...

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Corporate Author: International Congress on the Tchacos Codex 2008, Houston, Tex. (Issuing body)
Contributors: De Conick, April D. (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2009
In: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies (71)
Year: 2009
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Series/Journal:Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies 71
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Gospel of Judas / Codex Tchacos
B Apocryphal gospels / Theology / Church
IxTheo Classification:BF Gnosticism
HC New Testament
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Neutestamentliche Apokryphen
B Judas Iscariot Congresses
B Conference program 2008 (Houston, Tex)
B Gnosticism Congresses
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Summary:The codex Judas congress and its proceedings / April D. DeConick Abbreviations -- Identity and community -- The Tchacos codex : another document of the gnostics? / Alastair Logan -- Marytrdom and its discontents in the Tchacos codex / Karen L. King -- Irenaeus on the Gospel of Judas : an analysis of the evidence in context / Johannes van Oort -- When the Sethians were young : the Gospel of Judas in the second century / Marvin Meyer -- The Gospel of Judas : its protagonist, its composition, and its community / Gesine Schenke Robinson -- The Sethian myth in the Gospel of Judas : soteriology or demonology? / John D. Turner -- Portraits of Judas -- Judas Iscariot in the Gospel of Judas / Birger A. Pearson -- Laughing at Judas : conflicting interpretations of a new Gnostic Gospel / Fernando Bermejo Rubio -- "You will become the thirteenth" : the identity of Judas in the Gospel of Judas / Kevin Sullivan -- Judas' anger and the perfect human / Ismo Dunderberg -- Rabbi Yehuda versus Judas Iscariot : the Gospel of Judas and apocryphal passion stories / Pierluigi Piovanelli -- Astrological lore -- Apostles as archons : the fight for authority and the emergence of gnosticism in the Tchacos Codex and other early Christian literature / April D. DeConick -- Fate and the wandering stars : the Jewish apocalyptic roots of the Gospel of Judas / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Fate indelible : the Gospel of Judas and horoscopic astrology / Grant Adamson -- The star of Judas in the Gospel Judas / Niclas Forster -- The God of Jerusalem as the pole dragon : the conceptual background of the cosmic axis in James / Franklin Trammel -- Salvation and praxis -- Baptism and the Gospel of Judas : a preliminary inquiry / Elaine Pagels -- Stop sacrificing : the metaphor of sacrifice in the Gospel of Judas / Bas van Os -- Whose Savior : salvation, damnation, and the race of Adam in the Gospel of Judas / Johanna Brankaer -- From perplexity to salvation : the Gospel of Judas read in light of platonic didactic strategies / Tage Petersen -- Text and intertext -- "What is the advantage?" (Gos. Jud. 46.16): text, context, intertext / Louis Painchaud and Serge Cazelais -- Days and eight days : chronology in the Gospel of Judas / Matteo Grosso -- The Gospel of Judas 45,6-7 and Enoch's heavenly temple / Lance Jenott -- Paradise, kingdom, and the thirteenth aeon in the Gospel of Judas / Simon Gathercole -- Manuscript matters -- Addenda et corrigenda to the critical edition of the Gospel of Judas / Gregor Wurst -- The significance of the Tchacos codex for understanding the first Apocalypse of James / Wolf-Peter Funk -- The seven women disciples : in the two versions of the first Apocalypse of James / Antti Marjanen
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004181415