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On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Jonathan King wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/06/science/06cnd-judas.html?ex=1301976000&en=83f994a4468001ff&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
This new discovery sounds completely fascinating to me. Comments from
anybody with expertise on this kind of thing?
I've been seeing ads for a TV show about it:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/gospelofjudas/
It's on National Geographic cable channel Sunday night at 7 pm.
The thing that fascinates me is that the text is 1,700 years old. That
means it was written almost 300 years after the events occurred. How
accurate can it be? It would be like writing a story today about what two
people said to one another in private conversations in Boston 50 years
before the Revolutionary War -- historical fiction. Why would we believe
it was true?
That people believe the Bible is a true story is pretty amazing too.
Sure, they can point to historical accuracies in the Bible, but they could
point to historical accuracies in my story about Boston in the early 18th
century -- it wouldn't be *all* bullshit.
It is astonishing that something made of leather and papyrus has survived
for 1,700 years!
Reading more of it ... one more interesting thing is that Christians have
always thought of Judas as a bad guy, but without Judas there would have
been no salvation, so how bad was he? Now people can waste long hours
arguing about this. Sure, it's a fun story, but that's all it is.
Mike
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