The Gospel of Judas is an ancient text that tells the story of Jesus and Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus's disciples. It is believed to have been written sometime between the second and fourth centuries and is thought to be a Gnostic text. The text is controversial because
The Gospel of Judas is a Gnostic religious text that consists of conversations between Jesus and his disciples, especially Judas Iscariot. The only copy of it known to exist is a Coptic language text that is part of the Codex Tchacos, which has been radiocarbon dated to 280 AD, plus or minus 60 years. Like the Gnostic texts of the Nag Hammadi library, this version is believed by most biblical scholars to be a translation of an original which was composed by an anonymous author in the Greek language by Gnostic Christians in the 2nd century.