rolanni | Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

'Gospel of Judas' Surfaces After 1,700 Years

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD and LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: April 6, 2006

An early Christian manuscript, including the only known text of what is known as the Gospel of Judas, has surfaced after 1,700 years. The text gives new insights into the relationship of Jesus and the disciple who betrayed him, scholars reported today. In this version, Jesus asked Judas, as a close friend, to sell him out to the aut[horities.]

Read the rest of the New York Times article

...and then...

Pop over to the National Geographic site for a look at images of the original pages, plus the Coptic transcription and an English translation.

Swiped from

anghara

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

Notable Events

1961 - Formation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1962 - The Beatles record their debut single, Love Me Do.
1970 - The Ford Pinto is introduced. [and thousands asked the question, "Why?" --rolanni]

Births

1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor with over 1,000 patents to his name
1862 - O. Henry, American writer (d. 1910)
1966 - Princess Akishino, Wife of Prince Akishino, Japanese Imperial Family

Deaths

1161 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (b. 1105)
1987 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
1994 - Jessica Tandy, American actress (b. 1909)

ALSO...
the feast day of Saint Deiniol. A Welsh saint who founded a monastery in Bangor. Who knew? [g,d,r]

...I'm sure I did things. Now if I could only remember what they were.

Um.

Slept in. Yeah...

Rescheduled a pickup with DHL that was supposed to have happened yesterday, only They Forgot.

Crossed the border between SL and RL manymany times, each time carrying an itty bitty text file in my pocket. I can now recommence in to making Snippet booklets. Go, me.

Ditzed around with the old HP laptop that

kinzel kindly resurrected for my use. Man, I remember a time I thought this machine was svelte.

In an exalted fit of optimism filled out a form requesting information about acquiring space at the proposed Hathaway Creative Center in Beautiful Downtown Waterville.

Tortured Mozart. And Dulsey. I'd've done Scrabble, too, but I couldn't find her. Calicos Know These Things.

Did the dishes and various mundane chores.

-->Wrote<--

Considered how much more evening sun we're going to have blaring in our front windows this summer, now that our neighbor has thinned his wood lot. We're going to living in the Land of the Midnight Sun. *sigh* Wish there was a way to store it up in July and August and make withdrawals as needed in December...

Progress on the Book Without a Name