Codex Tchacos
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The Codex Tchacos is an ancient Egyptian Coptic papyrus document from approximately the year 300 C.E., containing early Christian Gnostic texts:
- The Gospel of Judas
- The First Apocalypse of James
- The Letter of Peter to Philip
- A fragment of Allogenes
The codex was discovered near El Minya, in Egypt, during the 1970s but was not examined and translated until 2001, when the owner, Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, concerned with its deteriorating condition, transferred it to the Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art in Basel, Switzerland. It is named after Dimaratos Tchacos, the father of the dealer who purchased the document in September 2000.
In April 2006, a complete translation of the text, with extensive footnotes, was released by the National Geographic Society: The Gospel Of Judas (ISBN 1-4262-0042-0, April 2006). National Geographic, which played a large part in the restoration and conservation of the codex, has also created a two hour television documentary, The Gospel of Judas, which aired worldwide on the National Geographic Channel on April 9, 2006.
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External links
- [Frequently Asked Questions], from National Geographic.
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