More than two years after National Geographic released a book and aired a documentary about the gospel of Judas asserting that the biblical traitor really was a hero, an increasing number of scholars are now casting doubts on the controversial claim. The latest criticism comes in the most recent issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education's magazine The Chronicle Review, where a lengthy 5,000-word story tells how the National Geographic project has divided longtime scholarly friends and co-workers, with dissenters saying the National Geographic team -- led by Marvin Meyer, a professor of religious studies at Chapman University -- mistranslated the gospel of Judas so badly that it ended up saying the opposite of what a proper translation would have rendered. The subhead on the story asks, "Did a 'dream team' of biblical scholars mislead millions?"
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