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In the Western imagination Judas Iscariot has always been the archetypal traitor - whether in legend, art of literature. The name "Judas" stands for the paradigm of evil ready to undermine good from within. In this book, Hyam Maccoby explores the character and story of Judas Iscariot in order to disentangle the historical from the fictitious, and to assess the power as well as the purpose of the myth of Judas the betrayer. Maccoby traces the development of the myth from the Gospels themselves - where a bare idea of the Betrayer changes from Gospel to Gospel growing into a burgeoning saga: to the Middle Ages when a full-blown Judas-saga developed; and finally to the deadly part played by the figure of Judas Iscariot in modern anti-semitic post-Christian movements.
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The excitement provoked by the publication of the Gospel of Judas, an odd Coptic text, is still alive among historians. The present bilingual edition offers the latest advances in the restitution and rendering of the Coptic text. The introduction and the abundant footnotes guide the reader through the different interpretations of this new apocryphal writing, and assess its value for our understanding of early Christianity.
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