Comments on: Obligatory Review of The Gospel of Judas http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/23/obligatory-review-of-the-gospel-of-judas/ Reflections on Mysticism and the East Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:11:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Darrell Grizzle http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/23/obligatory-review-of-the-gospel-of-judas/#comment-63 Darrell Grizzle Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:53:36 +0000 http://www.monakhos.com/2006/06/23/obligatory-review-of-the-gospel-of-judas/#comment-63 I agree about the Platonic influence on the cosmology in the Gospel of Judas. I think the Sethian Gnostics started out with the Platonic idea of "emanations" of the One, then developed a very complicated schema that would have made Plato and Plotinus scratch their heands and go "Huh?" My own review of the Gospel of Judas, comparing it with the vastly superior Gospel of Thomas, is at http://www.whosoever.org/v10i6/judas.shtml I'm a book geek too (as well as a theology geek), so I bought the Gospel of Judas the day it came out. My stack of gnostic gospels is growing perilously higher. I may need a separate bookcase just for gnostic and apocryphal texts! I agree about the Platonic influence on the cosmology in the Gospel of Judas. I think the Sethian Gnostics started out with the Platonic idea of “emanations” of the One, then developed a very complicated schema that would have made Plato and Plotinus scratch their heands and go “Huh?”

My own review of the Gospel of Judas, comparing it with the vastly superior Gospel of Thomas, is at http://www.whosoever.org/v10i6/judas.shtml

I’m a book geek too (as well as a theology geek), so I bought the Gospel of Judas the day it came out. My stack of gnostic gospels is growing perilously higher. I may need a separate bookcase just for gnostic and apocryphal texts!

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