Black Spirituality Religion : Truth Behind Gospel of Judas Revealed in Ancient Inks

[Keita Kenyatta]

A long-lost gospel that casts Judas as a co-conspirator of Jesus, rather than a betrayer, was ruled most likely authentic in 2006. Now, scientists reveal they couldn't have made the call without a series of far more mundane documents, including Ancient Egyptian marriage licenses and property contracts.
The Gospel of Judas is a fragmented Coptic (Egyptian)-language text that portrays Judas in a far more sympathetic light than did the gospels that made it into the Bible. In this version of the story, Judas turns Jesus over to the authorities for execution upon Jesus' request, as part of a plan to release his spirit from his body. In the accepted biblical version of the tale, Judas betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
As part of a 2006 National Geographic Society (the Society) investigation of the document, microscopist Joseph Barabe of McCrone Associates in Illinois and a team of researchers analyzed the ink on the tattered gospel to find out if it was real or forged. Some of the chemicals in the ink raised red flags — until Barabe and his colleagues found, at the Louvre Museum, a study of Egyptian documents from the third century A.D., the same time period of the Gospal of Judas.
"What the French study told us is that ink technology was undergoing a transition," Barabe told LiveScience. The Gospel of Judas' odd ink suddenly fit into place. [Religious Mysteries: 8 Alleged Relics of Jesus]
CSI: Ancient Egypt
Barabe and his colleagues specialize in thorough investigations of old — or supposedly old — documents and artwork. The chemical composition of inks used can reveal the difference between something authentically ancient and a forgery. In 2009, Barabe helped expose a gospel called the "Archaic Mark," which some claimed was a 14th-cen

http://news.yahoo.com/truth-behind-gospel-judas-revealed-ancient-inks-153710758.html

 

[cherryblossom]

A long-lost gospel that casts Judas as a co-conspirator of Jesus, rather than a betrayer, was ruled most likely authentic in 2006. Now, scientists reveal they couldn't have made the call without a series of far more mundane documents, including Ancient Egyptian marriage licenses and property contracts.
The Gospel of Judas is a fragmented Coptic (Egyptian)-language text that portrays Judas in a far more sympathetic light than did the gospels that made it into the Bible. In this version of the story, Judas turns Jesus over to the authorities for execution upon Jesus' request, as part of a plan to release his spirit from his body. In the accepted biblical version of the tale, Judas betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
As part of a 2006 National Geographic Society (the Society) investigation of the document, microscopist Joseph Barabe of McCrone Associates in Illinois and a team of researchers analyzed the ink on the tattered gospel to find out if it was real or forged. Some of the chemicals in the ink raised red flags — until Barabe and his colleagues found, at the Louvre Museum, a study of Egyptian documents from the third century A.D., the same time period of the Gospal of Judas.
"What the French study told us is that ink technology was undergoing a transition," Barabe told LiveScience. The Gospel of Judas' odd ink suddenly fit into place. [Religious Mysteries: 8 Alleged Relics of Jesus]
CSI: Ancient Egypt
Barabe and his colleagues specialize in thorough investigations of old — or supposedly old — documents and artwork. The chemical composition of inks used can reveal the difference between something authentically ancient and a forgery. In 2009, Barabe helped expose a gospel called the "Archaic Mark," which some claimed was a 14th-cen

http://news.yahoo.com/truth-behind-gospel-judas-revealed-ancient-inks-153710758.html

....The discovery gave the researchers the confidence to declare the document consistent with a date of approximately A.D. 280. (Barabe and his colleagues caution that this finding doesn't prove beyond doubt that the document is authentic, but rather that there are no red flags proving it's a forgery.)...

http://news.yahoo.com/truth-behind-gospel-judas-revealed-ancient-inks-153710758.html

 

[Chevron Dove]

....The discovery gave the researchers the confidence to declare the document consistent with a date of approximately A.D. 280. (Barabe and his colleagues caution that this finding doesn't prove beyond doubt that the document is authentic, but rather that there are no red flags proving it's a forgery.)...

http://news.yahoo.com/truth-behind-gospel-judas-revealed-ancient-inks-153710758.html

They've tried ever trick imaginable to kick against the truth, so why not try this too. smh.

... 280 years afterwards, lol!

 

[cherryblossom]

They've tried ever trick imaginable to kick against the truth, so why not try this too. smh.

... 280 years afterwards, lol!

http://www.freebeginning.com/new_testament_dates/


The following chart provides the dates when the New Testament books were written. In the cases in which historians disagree on the date, we have identified the prominent historians who support the earliest and lastest possible dates.

 

[Chevron Dove]

http://www.freebeginning.com/new_testament_dates/


The following chart provides the dates when the New Testament books were written. In the cases in which historians disagree on the date, we have identified the prominent historians who support the earliest and lastest possible dates.

Very informative!

It only confirms my thoughts and research too, in that the books were written right around the time of Masada, and the problems that occurred around A.D. 70, with the Sanhedrin being outlawed, and the Roman government coming against the Pharsaic Jews and etc. The books written by actual witnesses of what happen during the time of the crucifixtion, obviously caused strife!--and this sparked others like Paul the apostle to put his scholarly experience to the pin! These books in this chart agree with the uproars of the times that included the problems that extended through the time of the set up of the 7 Churces in Asia Minor, and up through about A.D. 90, and would include the trouble with Bar Khokba, and the building of the Coliseum, and etc. Again this chart is a great source of information. Thanks!