Judas
Subtitle: a biography
By: Susan Gubar.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780393064834
Subjects: Judas Iscariot
Description: An account of the story of the New Testament's arch-villain and his history over the past 2000 years in which Gubar links Christian anti-Semitism with Christianity's attempt to grapple with transcendent evil.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Myysterious origins; title: Judas, fact or fiction?; title: Alone of all his sex : Genesis in the Gospels; title: Part II: Evolving incarnations; title: Damned miscegenation : a fiendish adolescence from antiquity on; title: Arresting kisses : coming of age, especially during the Renaissance; title: In a modern glass darkly : the issue of sacrifice; title: Twentieth-century deaths and resurrections : what would Judas do?; title: Jesus, according to Judas's bad news : he who is praised.