Gospel of Judas
December 2, 2007
So I was reading through some blogs and I found a few new posts about the Gospel of Judas. Last year, the National Geographic really messed up in translating the Gospel of Thomas according to Rice University prof, April DeConick. She wrote an opinion post about the mistranslation in the NY Times and gives some interesting thoughts.
Though I do not typically agree with all of DeConick’s conclusions about the Gospel of Judas or her opinions, I applaud her for having the courage to point out translation inaccuracies in a major publication.
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Excellent article. I was particularly interested in what you said about the Dead Sea Scrolls:
“The situation reminds me of the deadlock that held scholarship back on the Dead Sea Scrolls decades ago. When manuscripts are hoarded by a few, it results in errors and monopoly interpretations that are very hard to overturn even after they are proved wrong.”
From what I understand, the consequences of the Scrolls monopoly are indeed still continuing today, in a misleading exhibit taking place in a “natural history” museum in San Diego. See this article for details:
http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/did-christian-agenda-lead-biased-dead-sea-scrolls-exhibit-san-diego
Thus, I would suggest that one important question confronting us today is whether serious biblical scholars will join together in frankly condemning what has been going on with the Dead Sea Scrolls in one museum exhibit after another for the past ten years.