My musings on the New Testament, Early Christianity, Religion, Literature, and Other Phenomena and Ephemera.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The Ink of Judas
The Gospel of Judas is back in the news with reports of how comparative ink analyses between Judas and more quotidian late-antique Egyptian documents (contracts, etc.) were used to help authenticate and date the Gospel. By authenticate, I mean that it is an ancient document rather than a modern forgery, and, therefore, tells us important new information about ancient Christianity. Looks like the ink comes from the third century CE.
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