Just in case you were wondering ... from News 24:
Speaking of the GoJ, amicus noster JM-Y (thanks) sent in a useful roundup post from Christianity Today, just in case you missed all the hubbub this week (and the National Geographic Channel is repeating the program tonight ... I also saw a bittorrent of the program somewhere on the net last night).
The world's only known copy of the Gospel of Judas, arrived in Egypt on Wednesday for public display.
The head of the Egyptian supreme council of antiquities, Zahi Hawwas, said: "Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript."
The manuscript dates to the third or fourth centuries and portrays the apostle Judas as Jesus' faithful servant, not his betrayer.
The document had been undergoing restoration and translation in Switzerland, where it had been acquired by the privately owned Maecenas Foundation.
The Gospel of Judas was discovered by a villager in Egypt's southern desert province of Minya in the 1970s.
The completion of the restoration work was announced by the National Geographic Society in Washington, last Thursday and the manuscript was unveiled at its headquarters.
An English translation from the ancient Coptic language of Egyptian Christians also was launched.
The society's executive vice-president for mission programmes, Terry Garcia, said: "The codex has been authenticated as a genuine work of ancient Christian apocryphal literature."
The manuscript is known as the Tchacos Codex after antiquities collector Frieda Nussberger-Tchachos, who bought it in 2000.
The manuscript will be exhibited in Cairo's Coptic Museum.
Speaking of the GoJ, amicus noster JM-Y (thanks) sent in a useful roundup post from Christianity Today, just in case you missed all the hubbub this week (and the National Geographic Channel is repeating the program tonight ... I also saw a bittorrent of the program somewhere on the net last night).