Israel has acquired a previously unknown ancient papyrus bearing a Hebrew inscription dated to around 2,700 years ago that had long been in possession of a Montana resident, the country's antiquities authority said Wednesday.
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i began to do my own work translating the gospel of judas, and what i began noticing is that there were certain selections of words in translation that didn t reflect the actual coptic language. and so this caused me to really sit down and take a second look at this text and start to ask questions. what do we really have here? april deconick has come to geneva to the bodmer foundation, now keepers of the gospel of judas, to see the actual papyrus for the very first time. oh, my gosh. look at that. just as judas is finally being rehabilitated, april deconick takes a look at this papyrus and finds, wait a minute. it s not saying what we think it is saying. so there are mistakes in the
of the ultimate traitor. the man who sells out jesus for 30 pieces of silver. judas crime is so easy to understand and at the same time so terrible. he betrayed his friend. along comes a bombshell, a newly translated ancient manu manuscript. just 25 tattered sheets of papyrus written in the ancient coptic language. the lost gospel of judas: it challenges our contempt for judas character. but now will missing fragments of text complete the gospel and force us to reconsider judas role in the story of jesus? the story of jesus, the story of the crucifixion, is not so
restoration will cost a fortune. tchacos needs someone with very wealthy contacts. enter manuscript dealer bruce ferrini. i was told that bruce ferrini was a very reputable manuscript dealer and that he had bill gates as a client. that sounded good. seeing the chance to make a quick profit, ferrini decides to buy the manuscript himself and sell it on. ferrini writes two checks, a total of $2.5 million for the gospel of judas, and they bounce. tchacos needs to reclaim her property. ferrini has the documents. he s got the papyrus, and what does he do with it? he puts it in a bag in the freezer. this is, in fact, recommended treatment sometimes for books, manuscripts made out of paper, but it s not conservation