Judas: A Biography
Author(s): Susan Gubar
Questions who Judas Iscariot was and why he betrayed Jesus, exploring the meaning of Jesus' betrayer over twenty centuries. This comprehensive, interdisciplinary work explains how Judas came to stand for the Jewish people and how he personifies a composite Judeo-Christianity that illuminates ambivalent relationships between Christians and Jews.
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If Judas had not existed, God would have had to invent him. The divine script called for betrayal with a kiss, and someone had to be cast in that role. Judas, the intimate friend of the Son, became thus the indispensable collaborator of the Father and a figure of endlessly inviting ambivalence for the Western imagination. Susan Gubar has assembled a tour-de-force collection of Judas-art and Judas-literature and turned it into a Judas biography full of thought, heart, and fascination. -- Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography
General Fields
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- : WW Norton & Co
- : WW Norton & Co
- : 0.808
- : 01 July 2009
- : 235mm X 156mm X 34mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 384
- : Hardback
- : Susan Gubar