Author: Joseph Heil
Publisher: Lake Lore Press, LLC
ISBN: 9780692185896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Well known to Christians and many non-Christians are the four Gospel accounts of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, now referred to as Palm Sunday. These narratives also tell of the following Thursday when Jesus celebrated his last Passover Supper with his apostle friends. Judas In Jerusalem explores the four ominous days that led Judas to betray Jesus. In the Prologue, two thirteen-year-old cousins, John and Jesus, roam the hill country near Jerusalem. They talk of everything they know and dream. Their mothers want them to master the carpentry trade, but the boys reject that. John, now mature, lives alone in the desert. A weakened man, Judas, collapses near his camp. John rescues him and encourages him to seek Jesus. Near Jericho, Judas encounters Jesus, who asks him to join his band of followers. Word comes that Jesus' cousin, John, has been arrested. Despite the danger, Jesus travels to Jerusalem, where his radical teachings are opposed by many members of the Sanhedrin. He enters the Holy City to welcoming crowds. A wealthy follower, Joseph of Arimathea, invites Jesus and one of his friends to dine with him that evening. Jesus asks Judas. Thereafter begins the moral degeneration of Judas, leading to his so-called betrayal of Jesus. Lust, greed, anger, and pride enter his mind and heart, which lead tragically to a senseless, condemning act. Finding himself trapped by men far more clever than himself, Judas is presented with a life or death alternative. Is Judas guilty of a betrayal? Or is he betrayed? The four evangelists tell us little. This novel reveals the life and death of Judas In Jerusalem.
Author: S P Laurie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912029693
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Christ 700 BC. One people, two kingdoms-one betrayed the other to total destruction. The Christ myth is ancient. The crucifixion account in the gospels relates to events that took place hundreds of years before the supposed time of Jesus. Such are the conclusions of this book which will revolutionise the way we see both Christianity and Judaism. The Judas War uncovers the story of a traumatic conflict in which a Judean king committed a desperate act that led to the annihilation of the sister kingdom of Israel. The surviving nation of Judah was racked by guilt, its population swelled by an enormous influx of refugees. To control a rebellious people, the king and priestly establishment centralised all religion in the Jerusalem temple. But the Judas War lived on through a dissident minority who preserved the bitter memory of the betrayal. The mainstream wrote the scriptures to deflect from their own shame. The dissidents told a very different story. The Judas War takes the reader on an epic journey to the real ancient Israel as revealed by modern archaeology as well as the original texts. It reveals a cosmos ruled by fallen angels; a religious worldview traced back to the Canaanite origins of the Jews. It shows how the unfolding tragedy on earth was explained by a tragedy in heaven: the divine king of the Jews, the Christ, had been crucified by the angelic rulers, the archons. He had been betrayed by the Jerusalem establishment who were represented by the fictional character of Judas Iscariot. After the defeat and exile of Judah, the Christ myth was expanded under a calendar of cosmic days ("the Almanac") to encompass all humanity. The Almanac set out the complete timeline of the world, past, present and future, as a symmetrical whole. It predicted that the Christ would be resurrected from the dead on "the third day" to defeat the archons and establish his new kingdom of heaven. Hundreds of years later in the first century, a female shaman announced that the time had come- Christ had appeared to her... The book reconstructs the Almanac from surviving sources and shows how it explains the gospel crucifixion account. From the strange timing of the crucifixion day to details such as the severed ear and the young man who has his sheet torn away, all come from the Almanac and the Judas War. Going further, the book uncovers a belief that Christ had come to earth three times in three different forms. And how as "the child of seven days" he revealed the shattering secret that would overturn the relationship between God and humanity. S.P. Laurie is the author of The Rock and the Tower and The Thomas Code.
Author: C. K. Stead
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407093371
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas? In this witty, original and teasingly controversial account, some forty years after the death of Jesus, Judas finally tells the story as he remembers it. Looking back on his childhood and youth from an old age the gospel writers denied him, Judas recalls his friendship with Jesus; their schooling together; their families; the people who would go on to be disciples and followers; their journeys together and their dealings with the powers of Rome and the Temple. His is a story of friendship and rivalry, of a time of uncertainty and enquiry, a testing of belief, endurance and loyalty.
Author: Simon Mawer
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316097505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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A priest commissioned to examine a controversial ancient scroll struggles with his own beliefs and conflicted vows while unraveling the secrets of the supposed "Gospel of Judas." By the author of Mendel's Dward. 75,000 first printing.
Author: Simon Mawer
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 1405512644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Amongst the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea, a remarkable scroll is discovered. Written in the first century AD, it purports to be the true account of the life of Jesus, as told by Youdas the sicarios - Judas Iscariot: the missing Gospel of Judas. If authentic, it will be one of the most incendiary documents in the history of humankind. The task of proving - or disproving - its validity falls to Father Leo Newman, one of the world's leading experts in Koine, the demotic Greek of the Roman Empire, and a man the newspapers like to call a 'renegade priest'. But as Leo absorbs himself in Judas' testimony, the stories of his own life haunt him. The story of his forbidden yet irresistible love for a married woman. The story of his mother's passionate and tragic affair amidst the war-time ruins of Rome. They are stories of love and betrayal that may threaten his faith just as deeply as the Gospel of Judas... With a dramatic narrative that spans from the Europe of the Second World War to Jerusalem two thousand years after Jesus' birth, THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS is a compelling and erudite thriller.
Author: Flavius Josephus
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789355399878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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The book, "" Antiquities of the Jews; Book - XII "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author: Flavius Josephus
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789355399885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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The book, "" Antiquities of the Jews; Book - XIII "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195343514
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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The biblical scholar recounts the events surrounding the discovery and handling of the Gospel of Judas, and provides an overview of its content, in which Judas is portrayed as a faithful disciple.
Author: Amos Oz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156006309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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The lighthearted tale of a 12-year-old Jewish boy who befriends a British policeman in 1947 Israel, a friendship which leads his comrades to accuse him of treason. The boys have formed a secret liberation army to throw out the British.
Author: Eckhard J. Schnabel
Publisher: Eerdmans
ISBN: 9780802875808
Category : Israel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This is the first book to describe and analyze, sequentially and in detail, all the persons, places, times, and events mentioned in the Gospel accounts of Jesus's last week in Jerusalem. Part reference guide, part theological exploration, Eckhard Schnabel's Jesus in Jerusalem uses the biblical text and recent archaeological evidence to find meaning in Jesus's final days on earth. Schnabel profiles the seventy-two people and groups and the seventeen geographic locations named in the four passion narratives. Placing the events of Jesus's last days in chronological order, he unpacks their theological significance, finding that Jesus's passion, death, and resurrection can be understood historically as well as from a faith perspective.
