Wednesday, June 27, 2007

GOSPEL OF JUDAS WATCH: Reading Judas, by Karen King and Elaine Pagels, is reviewed in the New York Sun by Bruce Chilton. Excerpt:
Reading Judas" is beautifully presented as well as generally well written, and it sets discussion of Judas along a productive direction. But its failure to bring "Judas" into dialogue with its counterparts in the Christian Bible and patristic writings makes the treatment less engaged with the passionate diversity of the period than it should have been.