The Judas Testament is a pejorative term referring to any hypothetical and apocryphal gospel written by an apostle of the historical Jesus or Jesus himself that would severely call into question the historicity of the words and acts attributed to Jesus in the New Testament and create great dismay amongst most devout Christians. Look up pejorative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In Judeo-Christian theologies, apocrypha refers to religious Sacred text that have questionable authenticity or are otherwise disputed. ... For other uses, see Gospel (disambiguation). ... The Twelve Apostles (in Koine Greek απόστολος apostolos [1], someone sent forth/sent out, an emissary) were probably Galilean Jewish men (10 names are Aramaic, 4 names are Greek) chosen from among the disciples, who were sent forth by Jesus of Nazareth to preach the Gospel to both Jews and Gentiles... Scholars arguing in favor of the existence of Jesus as a historical figure attempt a reconstruction of his life using the historical method. ... John 21:1 Jesus Appears to His Disciples--Alessandro Mantovani: the Vatican, Rome. ... This article is about the religous people known as Christians. ...

A novel by Daniel Easterman, The Judas Testament, published in 1994, revolved around the discovery of such a Judas testament in Moscow by an Aramaic scholar, who becomes the unwitting pawn in a murderous struggle by various cryptopolitical forces to possess the scroll. Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... Aramaic is a Semitic language with a four-thousand year history. ... See also Alternative political spellings and the list of pejorative political puns. ... A scroll is a roll of parchment, papyrus, or paper which has been written upon. ...

See also

• Dead Sea Scrolls
• Gospel of Judas
• Nag Hammadi Library
• New Testament apocrypha

Fragments of the scrolls on display at the Archeological Museum, Amman The Dead Sea scrolls comprise roughly 825-870 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran... The Gospel of Judas is a Gnostic gospel, the text of which was partially reconstructed in 2006. ... The town of Nag Hammadi in Egypt Nag Hammâdi (Arabic نجع حمادي; transliterated: Naj Hammādi) (26°03′N 32°15′E), is a town in the middle of Egypt, called Chenoboskion in classical antiquity, about 80 kilometres north-west of Luxor with some 30,000 citizens. ... The category of New Testament apocrypha reminds the modern reader of the wide range of responses that were engendered in the interpreting of the message of Jesus of Nazareth during the first several centuries of the Common Era, as mainstream Christianity emerged. ...

External links

• Daniel Easterman (1995). The Judas Testament Harpercollins. ISBN 058621089X