Even more startling Judas text emerges
With malice towards one & all
Los Angeles: Recent interest in the newly discovered gnostic writing “Gospel of Judas” is now drawing attention to a much more controversial, 1,900 year old, document that was discovered in Jerusalem in 1963, translated into German by 1970, and first published in Switzerland in 1978 with English versions appearing since 1992.
THE JESUS STORY: Known as the Talmud of Jmmanuel (the “J” symbol is pronounced with the short “I” sound as in Immanuel), the TJ, as it is called, shares one feature with the Gospel of Judas – Judas Iscariot was no betrayer. Instead, he was the trusted writer of the TJ. The TJ is much more comprehensive than the Gospel of Judas, while indicating that the man we know as Jesus was originally named Jmmanuel, that he survived the crucifixion and then traveled through several countries with his mother Mary, his brother Judas-Thomas and Judas Iscariot, that Mary died while on their trek to northern India and was buried in Pakistan, that Jmmanuel married and had numerous descendants and that he died at over 100 years of age and was buried near Srinagar, Kashmir.
SOURCE OF MATHEW’S GOSPEL: With the order of events in Matthew’s account of Jesus’ ministry closely following those in the TJ, and with the TJ’s original Aramaic text having been destroyed in 1973, due to its great heresies for Judeo-Christianity, the TJ was at first dismissed as a literary hoax based upon the Gospel of Mathew. This left only the German translation available for analysis. However, according to Prof. Emeritus James Deardorff, an independent gospel scholar who has researched the TJ extensively, the translation gives its own spiritual message while it resolves over 300 inconsistencies that have long troubled New Testament scholars of Matthew. This occurs often and by unexpected means, without problematic breaks in its text, such as those which plague Matthew. Through redaction criticism Deardorff concludes that the probability of TJ being a hoax is effectively non-existent, and that the TJ is in fact the actual source upon which the Gospel of Matthew (not Mark) was dependent.