Judas Iscariot
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The Rehabilitation of Judas: Why Every Generation Tries to Save the Betrayer
A companion essay to The Twelve Who Were Not: Composite Apostles and the Making of Early Christianity No figure in the apostolic tradition has drawn more effort to rescue him than the man who handed Jesus over at Gethsemane. Within… Continue reading
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The Word That Changed Everything
How Paradidōmi Became “Betray” And What The Hebrew Bible Says It Actually Was There is a word in the Greek New Testament that has been mistranslated for two thousand years, and the mistranslation built a villain. The word is paradidōmi.… Continue reading
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The Kiss That Cannot Exist
The Gospel Of Judas And The Theology Of Disappearance Mark gives the kiss without apology. Judas arrives in Gethsemane leading the arresting party, approaches Jesus directly, and executes what he has arranged. “Now the betrayer had given them a sign,… Continue reading
