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TM 108481 / LDAB 108481 Record to be adopted by: you?

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also known as Gospel of Judas; Codex Tchakos; Codex Tchacos; Codex gnosticus Maghagha

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Date: first half 4th century AD: AD 300 - 350
Orsini: AD 375 - 425

Provenance: Hipponon (Qarara), near ? - Egypt (20th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Coptic (Sahidic dialect) (paleography: biblical majuscule)

Material: papyrus

Completely preserved

Book form: codex (33 fol.); columns per page: 1; highest page number: 108

Content (beta!): literary text, Petrus; Jacobus; Judas: epistle of Petrus to Philippus; first apocalypse of Jacobus; gospel of Judas; book of Allogenes

Authors / works: Petrus, Epistula ad Philippum (Coptic): with end title (direct attestation)
Pseudo-Iacobus apostolus (I), Apocalypsis Iacobi (Coptic): with end title (direct attestation)
Pseudo-Iudas Iscariot, Evangelium secundum Iudam (Coptic) (direct attestation)
Anonymus of the Allogenes, Allogenes (Coptic) (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, gospel, apocalyptic, letter, apocryphon, dialogue (religion: christian, gnostic)

Recto/Verso: Ro

Note: the literary codices TM 66871, 108481, 108582, 113825 have probably been found together

More info: 4CARE/DEChriM4th century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt / Deconstructing Early Christian Metanarratives => 1338 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, other

Publications

Nagel, Codex apocryphus gnosticus Novi Testamenti 2 p. 39-119 [Tchakos] (Nagel, Peter - 2023)
&Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP) 57 (2020), p. 235-276 (Jenott, Lance - 2020; Allogenes)
&Kasser e.a., The gospel of Judas together with the letter of Peter to Philip, James, and a book of Allogenes from codex Tchacos. Critical edition (Kasser, Rodolphe / Wurst, Gregor / Meyer, Marvin W. / Gaudard, François P. - 2007) [default]

∙Jenott, The gospel of Judas. Coptic text, and historical interpretation of the betrayer's gospel (Jenott, Lance - 2011)

∙Brankaer / Bethge, Codex Tchacos. Texten und Analysen (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 161) (Brankaer, Johanna / Bethge, Hans-Gebhard - 2007)

∙Kasser / Wurst, The Gospel of Judas (Kasser, Rodolphe / Wurst, Gregor - 2006)

∙Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 10 (2006), p. 5-14 (Plisch, Uwe-Karsten - 2006)

Photo: Kasser e.a. facsimile edition; P. Orsini, Segno e testo 6 (2008), tav. 7-8 = ;Studies on Greek and Coptic majuscule scripts and books, p. 125 C. Méla - F. Möri, Alexandrie la divine II (2014), fig. 145, p. 830, 835 and 1099; Bibl. de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, science Religieus 176 (2017), p. 55-56

Content studies: P. Nagel, ZNTW 98 (2007), p. 213-276; M. Scopello (ed.), The gospel of Judas in context. First Intern. Conference on the Gospel of Judas, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 62, Leiden 2008; The codex Judas papers, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 71, Leiden 2009.

Script & book studies: P. Orsini, Segno e testo 6 (2008), p. 147-150 = Studies on Greek and Coptic majuscule scripts and books, p. 124-127 (date); G. Wurst, in : Gnose et manichéisme, Bibl. de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, science Religieus 176 (2017), p. 51-56; B. Nongbri, God's library (2018), p. 78-80

Other bibliography: Askeland, BASP 58 (2021), p. 299-314

Collections

→ Geneva, Fondation Bodmer [temporary loan]

∙Zurich, Private collection Nussberger-Tchacos without number (previous)

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