We're confident this is genuine ancient Christian literature.

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.

Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.

[Judas] is the good guy in this portrayal.

He is the good guy in this portrayal. In fact, he is not only the good guy, he is the only apostle who understands Jesus.

This is obviously one of the most unusual and contrary gospels written in Christian antiquity.