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But for the most part, scholars have only been able to read what the magazine's experts deciphered from the seriously eroded cheap phentermine free consultation. DeConick is critical of the process of dealing with the Judas text. When it was discovered in the late 1970s in a tomb in Egypt, it was bound in a single cheap phentermine free consultation with several other previously known Gnostic writings and an unknown Gnostic text. A series of cloak and dagger transfers of the cheap phentermine free consultation and a long period of storage in a bank vault left the work, which DeConick describes as "our most difficult Gnostic text yet," badly damaged. Scholars took five years to piece it together under a tight deadline from National Geographic. "This resulted in a situation that they published before they were finished," DeConick said. "The work they published was provisional, still in progress, but it was treated as if it were finished." According to the text translated by scholars Marvin Meyer, Rodolphe Kasser, Gregor Wurst and Bart Erhman, the Gospel of Judas claims that Jesus often appeared to His disciples as a 12 year old child, and that Jesus told the disciples each of them "has his own star." Add to that descriptions of Jesus being from the immortal realm of Barbelo and the document seems more science fiction than religion. Central to DeConick's argument are portions of the text where Judas informs Jesus of a vision he has had. Jesus laughs at the vision and asks why Judas, a "thirteenth spirit," tries so hard. The Messiah then tells Judas, "You will sacrifice the man that clothes me." But according to DeConick, phrases like that are what make the Gospel of Judas a satire or parody of orthodox Christianity. In her interpretation, the Judas text is very much against sacrifice. She calls the National Geographic Society's interpretation internally illogical. "This is the worst of possible sins," DeConick said. "It is a sin committed to the demonic rulers of the world. If Judas is a hero, then why would Jesus want and ask Judas to sacrifice him? The text understands what Judas does to be a sacrifice, and one made to the ruling demons, not to God. It is not a good or honorable act." DeConick and other scholars are planning a much closer look at the Gospel of Judas at Rice University in March 2008. Then, the university will host an international panel of scholars, including those who translated the work for National Geographic, to discuss the Tchacos Codex, which contained the Judas text. The meeting, she said, will create an academic climate that has, heretofore, been unavailable. "I wanted to create a situation of free and open academic exchange so that we can move past this deadlock," DeConick said. "I hope that the facsimiles will be released by then so that we can all work from them." 30 ... cheap phentermine free consultation