The week's biggest story on the ancient Mediterranean front is probably National Geographic's release of a translation of The Gospel of Judas. For 1800 years, it was known only by the early orthodox Christians' condemnation of it. Discovered by looters thirty years ago, it languished in the antiquarian underground until recently. Like the Gospel of Thomas, it speaks for an early Christian gnosticism that came to be regarded as heretical. The Gospel of Judas is particularly interesting for its radical alternative to the traditional understanding of the relationship of Judas to Jesus. The manuscript will be featured in a museum exhibit, opening on 7 April in Washington, a major television broadcast on 9 April, and two books: The Gospel of Judas, a translation, and The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot, the story of the manuscript's recovery. You can read excerpts from it here and about it in today's Times and Post.

Our colleague, Rebecca Goetz, is featured in Carolyn Kleiner Butler,"Blogging Their Way Through Academe," US News and World Report, 10 April. Take that, Ivan Tribble! I think he's down for the count.

Memory of war becomes warring memory in China's expansion of its museum of Unit 731 and the Japanese atrocities committed there.

The new Common-Place is up! April's theme is Money. Joyce Appleby's"Money, Money, Money," a study of the 17th century's effort to understand it, caught my eye, but there are lots of other good things, as well. The March issue of History Now is still up. Women's History Month sets the theme, with good articles by Ellen DuBois, Sara Evans, Ann Scott, and others.

Finally, there's"David Horowitz v. Ward Churchill.""Oh my g_d. What an appalling thought," says Cary Nelson."Maybe the sky will fall on both of them." Rob Capriccioso and Scott Smallwood cover it, so you and Margaret Soltan and I didn't have to be there.