Includes bibliographical references and indexes

The Codex Judas Congress and its proceedings / April D. DeConick -- The Tchacos codex : another document of the gnostics? / Alastair Logan -- Marytrdom [i.e. Martyrdom] 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 -- 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 -- 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 of Judas / Niclas Förster -- The God of Jerusalem as the pole dragon : the conceptual background of the cosmic axis in James / Franklin Trammel -- 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 -- "What is the advantage?" (Gos. Jud. 46.16) : text, context, intertext / Louis Painchaud and Serge Cazelais -- Three 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 -- 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

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