'This may be the greatest text discovery there has ever been. It
could make the Dead Sea Scrolls look like a picnic in the Garden of
Eden.' So says the Director for World Bible Studies in Jerusalem to
Father Leo Newman, who has been flown in from Rome to check the
authenticity of a new archaeological find - a scroll that purports
to be the Gospel of Judas, which bears a message that could
undermine a major tenet of Christian belief. How should Fr Newman
treat it? As questions of faith are posed by the document, so the
priest's personal life is confronting him. In love with a married
woman, his vows of chastity are at risk. The press has already
taken to calling him 'the Renegade Priest' so where does his career
stand in a life that was meant to be a search for truth? Childhood
memories of his mother's affair with his Italian tutor weave
themselves in and out of his tormented mind as he searches for a
solution. There are shades of Graham Greene in Mawer's compelling
picture of the Catholic priest's guilt-ridden conscience struggling
to resolve the problems of love, truth, responsibility and
betrayal. This erudite, well-researched novel throws light on
biblical language and history as well as the difficulties and
practices of Middle Eastern archaeology. The author writes with
sympathy for the human condition, and considerable understanding of
the laws that govern its continued existence. (Kirkus UK)
Amongst the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea, a remarkable scroll is
discovered. Written in the first century AD, it purports to be the
true account of the life of Jesus, as told by Youdas the sicarios -
Judas Iscariot: the missing Gospel of Judas. If authentic, it will
be one of the most incendiary documents in the history of
humankind. The task of proving - or disproving - its validity falls
to Father Leo Newman, one of the world's leading experts in Koine,
the demotic Greek of the Roman Empire, and a man the newspapers
like to call a 'renegade priest'. But as Leo absorbs himself in
Judas' testimony, the stories of his own life haunt him. The story
of his forbidden yet irresistible love for a married woman. The
story of his mother's passionate and tragic affair amidst the
war-time ruins of Rome. They are stories of love and betrayal that
may threaten his faith just as deeply as the Gospel of Judas...
With a dramatic narrative that spans from the Europe of the Second
World War to Jerusalem two thousand years after Jesus' birth, THE
GOSPEL OF JUDAS is a compelling and erudite thriller.
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