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“And it rushed in”: A new proposal for interpreting GJudas 57,24

  • Benjamin A. Edsall EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: September 4, 2021

Abstract

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.

Published Online: 2021-09-04
Published in Print: 2021-09-02

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