WASHINGTON -- For 2,000 years Judas has been reviled for betraying Jesus. Now a newly translated ancient document seeks to tell his side of the story. The "Gospel of Judas" tells a far different tale ...

Judas Iscariot, long reviled as history’s quintessential betrayer, was actually the best friend of Jesus and turned him over to authorities only because Jesus asked him to, according to the Gospel of ...

For centuries, Christian tradition has painted Judas Iscariot as the ultimate sellout. But a 1,700- year-old papyrus copy of a document called the Gospel of Judas, unveiled by the National Geographic ...

The translation of an ancient Papyrus text is offering an alternative view of one of the most notorious people in Biblical history. The text is called the Gospel of Judas. It attempts to explain acts ...

Researchers say they have discovered the only known copy of the Gospel of Judas. Alex Chadwick talks to Herb Krosney, author of The Lost Gospel. The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot? Matthew, Mark, Luke, ...

"What you need is a good Coptologist," Bart D. Ehrman in effect told the National Geographic Society in 2004. The society was asking Ehrman, a professor of religious studies at the University of North ...

The first translation of an ancient, self-proclaimed "Gospel of Judas" will be published in late April, bringing to light what some scholars believe are the writings of an early Christian sect ...