“And it rushed in”: A new proposal for interpreting GJudas 57,24
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Publication Date
- Sep 02, 2021
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 238–250
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1515/znw-2021-0014
- Source
- De Gruyter
- Keywords
- Disciplines
- License
- Yellow
Abstract
The present argument proposes a new interpretation for GJudas 57,24, a famously difficult passage in which someone enters a luminous cloud. While scholarship is divided over whether the phrase ⲁϥϥⲱⲕ applies to Judas or Jesus, there is a previously overlooked third option that is syntactically close to hand: it is Judas’s star. This translation, further, fits with important themes in the Gospel of Judas, both theological and narratological.
