The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot

The recent National Geographic special on the Gospel of Judas was a major media event, covering one of the most important biblical discoveries of modern times. A leading historian of the early church offers this comprehensive account of the newly discovered Gospel of Judas.

Bart D. Ehrman chairs the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. One of the major public experts on early Christianity, Jesus, and the New Testament, he is very well known in his field and to a general audience through his books, including the New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus, Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene, Lost Christianities, Lost Scriptures, and Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code. He has appeared on NBC's Dateline, A&E, the History Channel, CNN, and a number of nationally syndicated NPR programs, and has taped several highly popular lecture series for "The Teaching Company."

- Preface
- Chapter One: My Introduction to the Gospel of Judas
- Chapter Two: Judas in Our Earliest Gospels
- Chapter Three: Judas in Later Gospel Traditions
- Chapter Four: Before the Discovery: Our Previous Knowledge of a Gospel of Judas
- Chapter Five: The Discovery of the Gospel of Judas
- Chapter Six: The Gospel of Judas: An Overview
- Chapter Seven: The Gospel of Judas and Early Christian Gnosticism
- Chapter Eight: Jesus, Judas, and the Twelve in the Gospel of Judas
- Chapter Nine: Who Was Judas Iscariot
- Chapter Ten: What Did Judas Betray and Why Did He Betray It?
- Chapter Eleven: The Gospel of Judas in Perspective
- Endnotes