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JESUS LAUGHED.(The Gospel of Judas: From Codex Tchacos)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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The great wheel of history always turns, if slowly, and so, at last, the ultimate betrayer, Judas Iscariot himself, comes around again for another inspection, a potential record-clearing moment occasioned by the publication of "The Gospel of Judas" (National Geographic; $22), a very ancient, though not actually contemporary, rendering of Jesus, as seen by the man who ratted him out. Written in Coptic, and found, three decades ago, within a papyrus codex that contains other non-canonic writing, the manuscript has known a bizarre Calvary of its own--including a papyrus-damaging sixteen-year residence in a safe-deposit box in Hicksville, New York--and has only now been edited ...

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