1. Roger Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 114.
2. Ralph Pöhner, “Judas der Held,” FACTS: Das Schweitzer Nachrichtenmagazin (January 6, 2005): 76–79.
3. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Geheimnis,” FOCUS 13 (2005): 107–16.
4. Malcolm Macalister Hall, “The Gospel Truth,” The Sunday Review: The Independent on Sunday (June 5, 2005): 24–26, 28, 31.
5. Henk Schutten, “The hunt for the Gospel of Judas,” in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool, translated by Michel van Rijn on his Web site, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/parool-trans1.htm (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006), misrepresented the involvement of SMU: Emmel, a leading American coptologist and the German papyrologist Ludwig Koenen was [sic!] sent from Dallas to Geneva by the Southern Methodist University to have a look at manuscripts that were offered for sale by shadowy merchants. Similarly Ralph Pöhner, “Judas, der Held,” FACTS, January 6, 2005, 76–79: 78: The Southern Methodist University in Dallas showed interest, in May 1983 it sent Koenen with the coptologist Stephen Emmel to Geneva.
6. Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958, 1963, 1991, 2001).
7. Stephen Emmel, “The Nag Hammadi Codices Editing Project: A Final Report,” American Research Center in Egypt, Newsletter 104 (1978): 10–32.
8. “Ein anderes Frühchristentum?,” an interview with Stephen Emmel conducted by Roger Thiede, published in FOCUS 13 (2005): 118–19: 118.
9. Robert Macalister Hall, “The Gospel Truth,” in The Independent on Sunday, June 5, 2005, 24–31: 26.
10. Henk Schutten, “The hunt for the Gospel of Judas.”
11. In the interview with Thiede, “Ein anderes Frühchristentum?,” 118.
12. Quoted by Pöhner, “Judas, der Held,” 78.
13. The existence of this work in the codex had already been discovered by Ludwig Koenen, on the basis of a few sample photographs that the sellers had sent him, when they first offered to show him this material, and which Koenen had shared with Gerald M. Brown of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in order to have the barely legible bits of text transcribed and translated.
14. For more details, see the paper I presented at the annual conference of the Society of Biblical Literature in Philadelphia on November 20, 2005, “From The Nag Hammadi Codices to The Gospel of Mary and The Gospel of Judas,” published as Occasional Paper 48 by the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, Calif., 2006.
15. Listed in my Foreword to the reprint of W. E. Crum, A Coptic Dictionary (Eugene, Ore.: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2005). It is on seven unnumbered pages prior to Crum’s Preface. The Foreword is being reprinted in Coptica, journal of the Saint Mark Foundation and Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society, Los Angeles, 2006, forthcoming.
16. Stephen C. Carlson, Hypotyposeis: Sketches in Biblical Studies, http:// www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2005/03/gospel-of-judas-in-news_29.html, “Gospel of Judas in the News, Last Updated: April 7, 2005.”
17. James M. Robinson, “The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices,” Biblical Archeologist (42:4, Fall 1979): 206–24: 214.
18. Henk Schutten, “’Your life is at stake with this manuscript’” in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool, translated by Michel van Rijn on his Web site, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/parool-trans1.htm (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
19. The Dutch article, “Judasevangelie niet van Judas,” listed “From Michel van Rijn, 1st April 2005, from http://www.katholieknieuwsblad.nl/,” available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_ judas/. The translation is no doubt by Van Rijn.
20. The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Introduction, 21.
21. Michel van Rijn on his Web site, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/, December 9, 2001, available at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
22. Hans-Gebhart Bethge, “The Letter of Peter to Philip,” in New Testament Apocrypha, I: Gospels and Related Writings (ed. Wilhelm Schneemelcher; Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox, 1991), 342, and 347, n. 2.
23. Marvin W. Meyer, “NHC VIII,2: The Letter of Peter to Philip: Introduction,” in Nag Hammadi Codex VIII (ed. John H. Sieber; The Coptic Gnostic Library; Nag Hammadi Studies 31; Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1991), 227–32: 232. This statement is also to be found at the conclusion of the Introduction to The Letter of Peter to Philip in The Nag Hammadi Library in English.
24. Michel van Rijn on his Web site, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/, September, 2001, available at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
25. Roger Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” FOCUS 13 (March 26, 2005): 108–16.
26. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 109.
27. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 109.
28. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 109–10.
29. Michel Van Rijn on his Web site, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/ (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
CHAPTER FIVE: THE PEDDLING OF THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS
1. Roger Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” FOCUS 13, 2005, 110.
2. Ralph Pöhner, “Judas, der Held,” FACTS, January 6, 2005, 78.
3. Robert Macalister Hall, “The Gospel Truth,” in The Independent on Sunday, June 5, 2005, 26.
4. Pöhner, “Judas, der Held,” 78.
5. Roberty, in his interview with Stacy Meichtry, Vatican correspondent of Religion News Ser vice, February 13–14, 2006.
6. Michel Van Rijn, December 2004, on his Web site, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/ (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
7. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 111.
8. Pöhner, “Judas, der Held,” 78.
9. Michel van Rijn on his Web site, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/ (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
10. Michel van Rijn on his Web site, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/ (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006),
11. Apparently this letter, available on van Rijn’s Web site, is the source of Pöhner’s report, “Judas, der Held,” 78: A few years later another American got involved in the matter: James Robinson…. With the Egyptian he agreed on a total price in the area of $900,000 and agreed on a meeting in New York. I never met the Egyptian, and did not agree on a price with him or Perdios.
12. In e-mails from Charles W. Hedrick to me dated January 24 and February 3, 2006.
13. Pöhner, “Judas, der Held,” 77.
14. Charles W. Hedrick, “The Four 34 Gospels: Diversity and Division Among the Earliest Christians,” Bible Review 18.3 (June 2002): 20–31, 46– 47: 26; Charles W. Hedrick, “The Secret Gospel of Mark: Stalemate in the Academy,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 11.2 (Summer 2003): 133– 145: 139.
15. Pöhner, “Judas, der Held,” 78–79.
16. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 110.
17. Charles W. Hedrick and Paul Mirecki, The Gospel of the Redeemer (Santa Rosa, Calif.: Polebridge, 1999).
18. Available on the Web site of Michel van Rijn, April 27, 2005, http: www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/ (February 16, 2006), available also at http:// www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
19. On his Web site www.MichelvanRijn.NL@artnews.
20. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 111.
21. See the Web site of Michel van Rijn, April 8, 2005, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/ (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian. org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas
/ (February 16, 2006).
22. See the Web site of Michel van Rijn, December 9, 2001, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/ (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
23. Hall, “The Gospel Truth,” 26.
24. Henk Schutten, “The hunt for the Gospel of Judas,” Michel van Rijn on his Web site, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/parool-trans1.htm (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
25. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 111, 113.
26. Michel Van Rijn, on his Web site, December 2004, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/ (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
27. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 113.
28. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 113.
29. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 114.
30. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 114.
31. Schutten, “The hunt for the Gospel of Judas.”
32. Schutten, “The hunt for the Gospel of Judas.”
33. Hedrick, in an e-mail to me dated January 28, 2006.
34. Hedrick, in an e-mailed letter dated February 6, 2006.
35. Hedrick, in the e-mailed letter dated February 6, 2006.
36. Hedrick, in an e-mailed letter dated February 1, 2006.
37. Hedrick, in e-mailed letters dated February 6 and 18, 2006.
38. Hedrick, in an e-mail dated February 7, 2006.
39. Hedrick, in the e-mailed letter dated February 18, 2006.
40. Pöhner, “Judas, der Held,” 77.
41. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium, 112.
42. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium, 113.
43. Schutten, “Is there a copy in the Vatican?” Michel Van Rijn, on his Web site, December 2004, http:www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/parool-trans1.htm (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
44. Schutten, “The shady side of the art trade.”
45. Schutten, “The shady side of the art trade.”
46. Roberty, in an interview with Stacy Meichtry, Vatican correspondent of Religion News Ser vice, February 13–14, 2006.
47. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 109: “16 x 29 cm.”
48. Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” 109.
CHAPTER SIX: THE PUBLICATION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS
1. Roberty, in the memorandum to Kaufman of December 15, 2000.
2. See my essay, “The Discovering and Marketing of Coptic Manuscripts: The Nag Hammadi Codices and the Bodmer Papyri,” in Sundries in honour of Torgny Säve-Söderbergh, Acta Universitatis Uppsaliensis, Boreas: Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations 13 (1984): 97–114, reprinted in The Roots of Egyptian Christianity, eds. Birger A. Pearson and James E. Goehring, Studies in Antiquity and Christianity (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1986), 1–25; and The Pachomian Monastic Library at the Chester Beatty Library and the Bibliothèque Bodmer, Occasional Papers 19 (Claremont, Calif.: The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, 1990), reprinted in The Role of the Book in the Civilizations of the Near East, Manuscripts of the Middle East 5 (1990–1991 [1993]): 26–40.
3. Michel Van Rijn’s Web site, http://www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/ (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
4. Michel Van Rijn, http://www.michelvanrijn.nl/artnews/ (February 16, 2006), available also at http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/gospel_ of_judas/ (February 16, 2006).
5. From the Web site of Michel van Rijn, April 27, 2005.
6. A preliminary draft entitled “From The Nag Hammadi Codices to The Gospels of Mary and Judas” was published in the Coptic newspaper Watani International, July 10, 2005, p. 2, ed. Saad Michael Saad. This was updated and presented in the panel on the theme “How Nag Hammadi Changed the World of Early Christianity,” in the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Philadelphia on November 20, 2005. A minor updating of that paper was published in February, 2006, “From the Nag Hammadi Codices to The Gospel of Mary and The Gospel of Judas,” Occasional Papers 48 (and Claremont, Calif.: The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, 2006).
7. Patrick Jean-Baptiste, in Sciences et Avenir, 707 (January 2006): 38–45: “L’évangile de Judas,” 38–40, and “Les tribulations d’un manuscript apocryphe,” 41–45.
8. Jean-Baptiste, “Les tribulations d’un manuscrit apocryphe,” 41.
9. Jean-Baptiste, “L’évangile de Judas,” 38.
10. From the interview by Roger Thiede with Stephen Emmel, entitled “Ein anderes Frühchristentum?” In FOCUS 13/2005 118–19: 119.
11. Ralph Pöhner, “Judas, der Held,” FACTS, January 6, 2005, 79.
12. Pöhner, “Judas, der Held, 79.
13. Roger Thiede, “Das JUDAS-Evangelium,” FOCUS 13, 2005, 114–15.
14. Stephen C. Carlson, “Gospel of Judas in the News, Last Updated: April 7, 2005.” http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2005/03/gospel-of-judasin-news_29.html
15. Pöhner, “Judas, der Held,” 79.
16. Summarized in James M. Robinson, The Gospel of Jesus (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005), 75–77.
17. Robert H. Eisenman and James M. Robinson, eds., A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991, second revised impression 1992).
18. For full details see James M. Robinson, The French Rôle in Early Nag Hammadi Studies 1946–1953, Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi, section Études (Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming), and, abbreviated, “The French Role in Early Nag Hammadi Studies,” The Journal of Coptic Studies 7 (2005): 1–12.
19. La Bourse Égyptienne, June 10, 1949.
20. The Nag Hammadi Library in English, eds. James M. Robinson and Marvin W. Meyer (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977, and San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1977).
About the Author
JAMES M. ROBINSON is the founding director emeritus of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, and professor emeritus at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of Trajectories Through Early Christianity, A New Quest of the Historical Jesus, and The Gospel of Jesus. He is widely known for his pioneering work on the Sayings Gospel Q and the Nag Hammadi codices, was the permanent secretary of UNESCO’s International Committee for the Nag Hammadi Codices, and was the general editor of The Nag Hammadi Library in English. He lives in Claremont, California.
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