He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher. |
The Gospel of Judas is a real surprise. It pictures Judas ..not as the worst villain in the history of the world as he's been thought of in Christian tradition..but as the one disciple whom Jesus entrusts with secret understanding. |
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious. |
These discoveries are exploding the myth of a monolithic religion and demonstrating how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was. |
These discoveries are exploding the myth of a monolithic religion. |
When Jews talked about external enemies,they talked about them as if they were monsters. |
Whether or not one agrees with it, or finds it interesting or reprehensible, it's an enormously interesting perspective on it that some follower of Jesus in the early Christian movement obviously thought was significant. |