Judas Iscariot has been demonized as the quintessential traitor,
the disciple who betrayed his master for the infamous thirty pieces
of silver. But the recent sensational discovery and publication of
the long lost Gospel of Judas, with its remarkable portrayal of
Judas Iscariot as the disciple closest to Jesus, raises serious new
questions. Was Judas the only member of the Twelve who truly
understood Jesus? Did Jesus secretly collaborate with Judas to set
in motion the series of events that would redeem all of humankind?
In search of answers, Marvin Meyer, one of the world's leading
experts on the Gospel of Judas presents a collection of the
earliest accounts of Judas, which together paint a fuller portrait
of this most enigmatic disciple.
This book presents the essential texts that deal with the figure
of Judas, including New Testament writings, Gnostic documents, and
other early and later Christian literature. These are the earliest
known testimonies about Judas and include selections from the
gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, the Acts of the Apostles,
and relevant passages from Paul. The centerpiece of the book is the
Gospel of Judas, followed by excerpts from three other Gnostic
texts--the Dialogue of the Savior, the Concept of Our Great Power,
and the "Round Dance of the Cross"--which may shed new light on the
figure of Judas. A series of additional writings on Judas produced
over the centuries provide glimpses of the vilification of Judas
and the emergence of anti-Semitic themes.
Meyer offers evidence of traitors before Judas--the Genesis
story of Joseph's brothers who sold him into slavery, the
duplicitous friend of the poet in Psalm 41, and Melanthius the
goatherd in Homer's Odyssey--all of which raise the question of
whether the story of Judas Iscariot could be simply a piece of
religious fiction derived from earlier stories.
Judas provides a rich collection of original sources that tell
the story of Christianity's most infamous figure, offering the
fullest understanding of Judas Iscariot's undeniable importance in
the climax of Jesus's life.
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