[khnyny]

Do you notice that they always release their madeup pseudo bs right before Holy Week?

These "scholars" are so biased, nothing they say or write can really begin to be trusted. Unfortunately, the average person who is not knowledgeable (especially young people) will see this crap and accept it as truth.

[gaspar]

Elaine Pagels made her bones in the atheist/agnostic community with The Gnostic Gospels, 1979. It was known then that if anything she was a gnostic herself -- and took especial glee from twisting Christian tails, just as the heretical Gnostics did in the early centuries following the death of Christ. As for the book on Judas, I recall that Iraneus writing in the 3rd century rejected it out of hand (sorry, I don't have the book at hand but I believe it was in "Against Heresies").

[NYer]

Do you notice that they always release their madeup pseudo bs right before Holy Week?

It's a war. We live in evil times. Why doesn't NG put together a documentary on the origins of the Qu'uran? We all know the answer to that question.