Misunderstood Judas
With all the current publicity mounting for the forthcoming Da Vinci Code movie anything Gnostic promises to get media attention. For a while now, Mary Magdalen has been the center of academic and popular deconstruction, now Judas may take her place. The National Geopraphic Society has published a study on the lost Gospel of Judas which portrays Jesus actually asking Judas to betray him. With the proliferation of Jesus clones it is getting much harder for a true spiritual seeker to identify him in the crowd. The problem is made worse by the pretention of “scholarship”. If you are interested in what is driving the academy and media and what history really tells us, read Hidden Gospels by Philip Jenkins, a professor of history and religion at Penn State.