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- Title
WHAT SHOULD JUDAS HAVE DONE? AND WHAT SHOULD JESUS?
- Authors
Lyon, Ardon
- Abstract
The gospels tell us that Judas betrayed Jesus, and that this was an incredibly wicked act. Lots of people believe that at least many of the events portrayed in the New Testament did not actually happen. I argue here that if we suppose on the contrary that they did, then Judas did not in fact act wickedly, and that the only person who acted immorally in this situation was Jesus. I refer in this article first to the wonderful story ‘Three Versions of Judas’ by Borges, who draws a somewhat different conclusion from mine, and later to Amos Oz's novel <italic>Judas</italic>.
- Subjects
GOOD &; evil; JUDAS Iscariot; JESUS Christ
- Publication
Think: Philosophy for Everyone, 2018, Vol 17, Issue 49, p57
- ISSN
1477-1756
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1477175618000106