Judas : : a Biography

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Introduction -- Part I: Myysterious origins -- Judas, fact or fiction? -- Alone of all his sex : Genesis in the Gospels -- Part II: Evolving incarnations -- Damned miscegenation : a fiendish adolescence from antiquity on -- Arresting kisses : coming of age, especially during the Renaissance -- In a modern glass darkly : the issue of sacrifice -- Twentieth-century deaths and resurrections : what would Judas do? -- Jesus, according to Judas's bad news : he who is praised.
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.

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