Synopses & Reviews
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"If Judas had not existed, God would have had to invent him. The divine script called for betrayal with a kiss, and someone had to be cast in that role. Judas, the intimate friend of the Son, became thus the indispensable collaborator of the Father and a figure of endlessly inviting ambivalence for the Western imagination. Susan Gubar has assembled a tour-de-force collection of Judas-art and Judas-literature and turned it into a Judas biography full of thought, heart, and fascination." Jack Miles, author of < i=""> God: A Biography <>
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"A most readable account of the story of the New Testament's arch-villain and his history over the past 2000 years, Susan Gubar's links Christian anti-Semitism with Christianity's attempt to grapple with transcendent evil. The recent discovery of the ancient Gospel of Judas makes Gubar's book a MUST READ." Sander Gilma
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Synopsis
" is a dark journey through the murderousness of Christian Anti-Semitism, culminating in the mass slaughter of more than a and their associated European butchers. Lucid, study is close to definitive on the fictive figure of Judas."--Harold Bloom
Synopsis
In this expansive cultural biography of Judas, a prominent scholar explores the meaning of Jesus' betrayer over 20 centuries. Gubar shows how Jesus' most notorious disciple has provoked profound reflections on the problem of evil that still resonate today. 48 illustrations.
About the Author
Susan Gubar (Ph.D. University of Iowa) is a Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, where she has won numerous teaching awards, most recently the Faculty Mentor Award from the Indiana University Graduate and Professional Student Organization. In addition to her critical collaboration with Sandra Gilbert, she is the author of Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture (1997), Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century (2000), Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew (2003), and Rooms of Our Own (2006), and editor of the first annotated edition of Woolf's A Room of One's Own (2005) and True Confessions (2011).