The Gospel of Judas

NY: Little, Brown & Co, 2001. First American Edition. Hardcover_boards. Very Good-Collectible/VeryGood. 6.25"x9.5" 330 pgs. First printing. Maroon boards & spine w/gold foil letters. Text design by Meryl Sussman Levavi/Gigitext. DJ design by Mario Pulice. Jacket photo-illustration by Debra Lill. Author photo by Jerry Bauer. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & umarked. Faint soil spots inside boards. Secure ship w/track #. 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. Source: Publisher.