Judas Iscariot, Gospel of
Judas Iscariot, Gospel of
A Gospel of Judas is mentioned by Irenaeus (Adv. Haer., i. 31), Epiphanius (Haer., xxxviii. 1), Theodoret, etc., as current in the Gnostic sect of the Cainites, to whom Judas was a hero. It must have been in existence in the 2nd century, but no quotation is given from it (see Baring-Gould, Lost and Hostile Gospels, III, chapter v).