Author: GUBAR, SUSAN (1944-)
Title: Judas: a biography / Susan Gubar
Description: New York: W.W. Norton 2009. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxvi. 453 p.: ill. (some col.); 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-429) and index. Contents; Introduction -- Part I: Mysterious 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. Summary; 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. In this comprehensive. interdisciplinary work. Susan Gubar asks who Judas Iscariot was and why he betrayed Jesus. exploring the meaning of Jesus' betrayer over twenty centuries. Despite the recent recovery of a Gnostic Gospel bearing his name. the centrality of the twelfth apostle has gone largely ignored. Yet artists throughout the ages have returned to this man. whose treacherous act inaugurates Jesus' death and resurrection. Gubar explains how Judas came to stand for the Jewish people and how he personifies a composite Judeo-Christianity that illuminates ambivalent relationships between Christians and Jews as well as changing attitudes toward the body. blood and money; greed and hypocrisy; suicide and repentance; and. homosexuality and divinity. Gubar shows how Jesus' most notorious disciple has provoked profound reflections on the problem of evil that still resonate today. Subjects; Judas Iscariot. History. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious. RELIGION / Biblical Biography / New Testament. RELIGION / Christian Theology / History. Weight in Kg appr.:

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