The Gospel of Judas in Context ― Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, Paris, Sorbonne, October 27th-28th, 2006

This book offers the papers presented at the First International Conference on the Coptic Gospel of Judas, held in Paris, University of Sorbonne, October 27th-28th 2006. Several crucial literary, historical and doctrinal issues related to this apocryphon of the 2nd century A.C. are explored as well as Judas' ambiguous figure.

Madeleine Scopello, Doctor in Classics and Philosophy, University of Turin; HDR, University of Sorbonne, Paris, is Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the University of Sorbonne, Paris. She has published extensively on Gnosticism and Manichaeism, including L'Exegese de l'ame (Brill, 1985),L'Allogene (Peeters-Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2004), Femme, Gnose et Manicheisme (Brill, 2005). Contributors include: Nathalie Bosson; Jean-Pierre Mahe; Stephen Emmel; Marvin Meyer; James M. Robinson; Glenn Most; Bernard Pouderon; Cecile Dogniez; Majella Franzmann; Madeleine Scopello; Simon C. Mimouni; Jean-Daniel Dubois; Einar Thomassen; Louis Painchaud; John D. Turner; April D. DeConick; Jose Montserrat-Torrents; Ezio Albrile; Seonyoung Kim; Anna Van den Kerchove; Fernando Bermejo Rubio.