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On the Gospel According to Judas

First, from National Geographic (via the natlgeographic feed):
"Lost Gospel Revealed; Says Jesus Asked Judas to Betray Him"

and

"After 1,700 years, the Gospel of Judas is lost no more. And the twisting tale of the document itself is nearly as surprising as the story it tells."

These links via mister_wolf:
"We’ve reached a point with DaVinci madness where nothing is too comic for the mainstream media to report with a straight face. Ideas about New Testament studies that wouldn’t appear on a freshman pop quiz are now tossed about the main stream media as if they are established facts."

and

"In many ways, I've always thought the early gospels resemble Jesus fanfic."

[Edit: and then from the LJ of mister_wolf (no relation), I traveled on to prester_scott, who linked to:
some background about the Cainites, one of the Gnostic sects who may have made heavy use of the Gospel of Judas

and

rather a lot of information about the manuscript here.]

And via supergee: sturgeonslawyer's take on Gnosticism & early Christianity.