#77 Bart Ehrman - What is the Gospel of Judas?

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Alex O'Connor

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🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He was one of the first people in the world to see the rediscovered manuscript of the Gospel of Judas, when he was asked by National Geographic to join a small team of experts who verified its authenticity.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I just started a new sub stack so if you're interested in reading my writings
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0:07.5	Dr Bart Ermin welcome back to the show.
0:09.2	Thanks for having me.
0:10.5	Who is was Judas Iskaryate?
0:14.0	Ah, right. So Judas Iscaryate was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus.
0:20.0	His name was Jude or Judas.
0:25.0	We don't know what Iscariot means.
0:28.0	It wasn't a last name.
0:30.0	People in that world didn't have last names unless they were upper class Roman elite.
0:35.0	And so scholars are debated for a long time.
0:38.0	What Iscariot means?
0:40.0	Does it, there's a huge range of views from everything that means that he was a redhead to meaning that he was in an assassin
0:46.7	to meaning he came from a town named Carreuth that that's the I think the normal explanation that the more common explanation is that is as
0:56.1	cariot stands for a Hebrew term each karyote man from karyeth the difficulty being we don't know of a village like that.
1:05.0	Right, right.
1:06.0	But it's more likely than a lot of the other options.
1:09.0	So he was one of the 12 people that Jesus picked to be part of his inner circle.
1:13.0	Well, he said maybe an assassin?
1:15.0	Yeah, yeah, because, I know, so I know that would be interesting, wouldn't it?
1:20.0	Yeah.
1:21.0	So it's because they're at the time of when Jesus was ministering and afterwards there were groups
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