Colbert Interviews Elaine Pagels "Gospel According to Judas"
Lord Stephen pontificates with Princeton's Elaine Pagels, the world's leading authority on the Gnostic Gospels. Both great fun (as always!) and highly educational. Eliane's a charmer! The Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.
For more than 2,000 years, Judas Iscariot has been reviled as Jesus' betrayer. But a newly authenticated and newly translated ancient document known as the Gospel of Judas tells a different story, one of Judas as Christ's favored disciple.
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