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This is the stuff that academic reputation death is made of, apparently. Everyone agrees it's a real second century gnostic text, but apparently the Coptic scholars are ripping each other apart on what it actually says. National Geographic had publication rights and hired translators, who framed it as rehabilitating Judas as Jesus' best friend who Jesus asked to turn him over to the Romans. Another scholar is claiming that early Christian Coptic documents use "daimon" for demon and the number 13 is used for a realm governed by a demon in Gnostic thought. Various people in the Coptic and religious studies departments of major universities have taken sides. It's going to be a career bloodbath, it looks like.

http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i38/38b00601.htm