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Reflection of Judas Iscariot in Adversus haereses by Irenes of Lyons: The Cainites and the others
Pípal, Viktor ; Ventura, Václav (advisor) ; Lášek, Jan Blahoslav (referee)
Resume: In this work, the author addressed the issue of close and tense relations between gnosis and early Christianity through a comparative method. Through comparative analysis, he examined the above-mentioned connections with regard to the figure of Judas Iscariot and with special regard to the Gnostic scripture with Christian elements called the Gospel of Judas, which was used by the Gnostic sect of the Sets, called cainites. Crucial to this work was the study of an important work dedicated to Gnostic currents in the second century called Adversus haereses by the Christian theologian Irenaeus of Lyon. Through excerpts from Irenaeus' work, we became thoroughly acquainted with the philosophical and theological systems of the Gnostics as well as the origin of gnosis and their main representatives. We made a new translation of the chapter on cainites from Latin, taking into account the Latin "original" version of Irenaeus' work and taking into account the older Czech translation and the English translation. We have thoroughly analyzed the important Gnostic work of the Gospel of Judas, which was discovered in Egypt up to 1800 years after it was first mentioned by Irenaeus and was considered either fanciful or lost forever, and compared it with the canonical Gospels and the Gnostic manuscripts of Nag Hammadi...
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