When the first translation of the long-lost Gospel of Judas was published last year amid considerable publicity, a few scholars trumpeted its apparent depiction of Judas Iscariot as a positive figure ...

Timing is everything. Jesus’ fatal confrontations with religious and political authorities in Jerusalem coincided with the crowds of pilgrims arriving for Passover. Almost 2,000 years later, attentive ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Washington – For 2,000 years, Judas has been reviled for betraying Jesus. Now a newly translated ancient document seeks to tell his side of the story. The ...

Today, given that evildoers are sometimes equally instructive as good folks, the professor begins a series of articles on the great villains of the Bible. This week: Judas Iscariot. Of all the ...

Knowing that his followers would find it hard to understand that Jesus let the betrayal happen, he quotes from Scripture: ...