Rodolphe Kasser

Rodolphe Kasser (14 January 1927 – 8 October 2013),[1] was a Swiss philologist, archaeologist, and a Coptic scholar.

From 1963 to 1998, he was on the staff at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Geneva, lecturing in Coptic languages and literature.

After 2000, Kasser organized the restoration and prepared the edition princeps of Codex Tchacos, containing the Gospel of Judas and three other Coptic gnostic texts.

The National Geographic Channel also aired a full documentary in 2006 called The Gospel of Judas, with an 87 minute runtime (equivalent to 2 hours if commercials are included).

The papyrus manuscript went on display at the National Geographic Society's museum in Washington DC, in April 2006.