The Gospel Of Judas

By: Simon Mawer

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Paperback | 7 July 2005 | Edition Number 1

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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.

Industry Reviews

It is elegant and intelligently stylistic deliberately written with the weight of Modernist tradition behind it. - GLASGOW HERALD

A gripping read with a suitably dramatic climax. - DAILY EXPRESS

Simon Mawer tells a gripping, utterly compelling story. He weaves together the threads of his complex plot with a deftness that keeps the reader mesmerised to the very end of the book. - THE TIMES

This is a throughly enjoyable and extremely well-written novel. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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