This attempts to outline the history of religion of the evidence handed down in the Codex Tchacos and to define its relationship to further traditions in the history of the Gnostic religion.

Due to various archeological findings, fundamental progress has been made in the study of the history of the Gnostic religion in the past decades. One of the more recent discoveries is the so-called Codex Tchacos, containing the Gospel of Judas which had already been mentioned by Irenaeus of Lyons. Although the Codex Tchacos was already discovered in 1978, it could not be made accessible to the general public until 2006/07. Since this time, a number of new fragments have been published and added to the already edited texts. This new text is the basis for the studies in this volume, which attempts to outline the history of religion of the evidence handed down in the Codex Tchacos and to define its relationship to further traditions in the history of the Gnostic religion.

Inhalt
Gregor Wurst: Zur sprachgeschichtlichen und kodikologischen Eigentümlichkeit des Codex Tchacos - Johanna Brankaer: Der Codex Tchacos als thematische Textsammlung - Constanze Dreßler: Das Judasevangelium als vorösterliche Offenbarungsschrift: Überlegungen zu gattungsgeschichtlichen Eigentümlichkeiten - Herbert Schmid: Was hat der "Judasevangelist" eigentlich gegen die Eucharistie? - Tobias Nicklas: Der Demiurg des Judasevangeliums - Jean-Daniel Dubois: The Gospel of Judas and Basilidian Thought - Enno Edzard Popkes: 'Die Wolken': Beobachtungen zum Motiv der Lichtwolke im "Buch des Allognes" (CT 4) und verwandten Traditionen - Philippa Townsend: Sacrifice and Race in the Gospel of Judas - Hans-Gebhard Bethge: "Der Brief des Petrus an Philippus" als Bestandteil von NHC VIII und Codex Tchacos: Beobachtungen und Überlegungen zum überlieferungsgeschichtlichen und inhaltlich-sachlichem Verhältnis beider Paralleltexte - Silke Petersen: "Die sieben Frauen - sieben Geistkräfte sind sie". Frauen und Weiblichkeit in der Schrift "Jakobus" (CT 2) und der (ersten) Apokalypse des Jakobus (NHC V,3) - Claire Clivaz: What is the Current State of Play on Jesus' Laughter? Reading the Gospel of Judas in the midst of Scholarly Excitement - David A. Creech: Bodily Delight: The Pro-Life Message of the Gospel of Judas - Anders Klostergaard Petersen: The Gospel of Judas: A Scriptural Amplification or a Canonical Encroachment? - Simon Gathercole: Matthean or Lukan Priority? The Use of the NT Gospels in the Gospel of Judas - Gerard P. Luttikhuizen: Fragments of a Gnostic Anthropology in the Gospel of Judas: A Comparison with the Secret Book of John - John D. Turner: Dating the Gospel of Judas