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[Timothy Butler]

>>
>> So, how did he manage to write this gospel, seeing as he died  
>> hours after
>> betraying the Lord Jesus?
>
> He didn't. There are a lot of so-called gospels that are like this.  
> Most
> of them were probably done by gnostic writers in the second or third
> centuries.

	Well, not the third century... given that Irenaeus references the  
Gospel of Judas in his book on Heresies in the second century.

	I suspect, on a more serious note than the one I posted last night,  
that the name is more indicative of its central theme than the author  
(e.g. that it is the good news that Judas was told).

	-Tim



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