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On the Apocryphon of John, see my Ancient Gnosticism, pp. 61–69.

DeConick, The Thirteenth Apostle, pp. 48–51.

Pagels-King, Reading Judas, p. 115. (King’s translation is the second part of their joint book.)

Quotations from the Gospel of Judas are taken from the new translation found in DeConick’s book The Thirteenth Apostle.

Against Heresies 1.31.1, in Werner Foerster, Gnosis: A Selection of Gnostic Texts. English Translation Edited by R. McLachlan Wilson , vol. 1 Patristic Evidence (Oxford: Clarendon, 1972), pp. 41–42.

April DeConick, The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says (London/New York: Continuum, 2007).

The Gospel of Judas, Together with the Letter to Philip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos, Coptic text edited by Rodolph Kasser and Gregor Wurst, introductions, translation and notes by Rodolph Kasser, Marvin Meyer, Gregor Wurst and François Gaudard (Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2007).

The story of the find and the disastrous mishandling of the Codex has been told by Herbert Krosney in The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot (Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006).

For more information about digging at Tell es-Safi/Gath, see “Digs 2008,” BAR, January/February 2008, or visit www.findadig.com and www.dig-gath.org.