Garmin The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING] Krosney, Herbert [Fine] [Hardcover]

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Fine unread condition black boards, black cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Defining Time Periods; Foreword by Bart D. Ehrman; Who's Who in the Lost Gospel; Prologue; Epilogue; Publisher's Note; Author's Note; Acknowledgments and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of color photographic plates plus a preliminary page map and timeline. A small former owner name and date is neatly scripted at the blank upper right corner of the first free front endpaper. ""This codex - one of the greatest discoveries in Judeo-Christian archaeology - did not head straight to a museum, or even to the library of a rich collector. The gospel's removal from its burial place was just the beginning of a bizarre cloak-and-dagger journey. The Gospel of Judas, treated like a piece of merchandise, would be shopped around on three continents over the course of the next twenty-five years, its contents glimpsed only a few times between long periods of inactivity in far from ideal storage conditions. Every step of the way the precious document would deteriorate, until much of it was reduced to fragments of papyrus fibers."" - from The Lost Gospel and the rear outer jacket. ""Judas Iscariot. He's been hated and reviled through the ages as Jesus Christ's betrayer - the close friend who sells him out for 30 pieces of silver. But history also records other information about Judas Iscariot. One such reference was written in 180 by an influential Church Father named St. Irenaeus who railed against the Gospel of Judas for depicting the last days of Jesus from the perspective of the disgraced apostle. In its pages, Judas is Christ's favorite. It's a startlingly different story than the one handed down through the ages. Once it was denounced as heresy, the Gospel of Judas faded from sight. It became one of history's forgotten manuscripts. Until now. In this compelling and exhaustively researched account, Herbert Krosney unravels how the Gospel of Judas was found and its meaning painstakingly teased from the ancient Coptic script that had hid its message for centuries. With all the skills of an investigative journalist and master storyteller, Krosney traces the forgotten gospel's improbable journey across three continents, a trek that would take it through the netherworld of the international antiquities trade, until the crumbling papyrus is finally made to give up its secrets. The race to discover the Gospel of Judas will go down as one of the great detective stories of biblical archaeology."" - from the inner front jacket flap.