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Article: "Saving Judas"--a social scientific approach to Judas's suicide in Matthew 27:3-10.
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- Biblical Theology Bulletin
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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Abstract
This article examines Judas's suicide, reported in Matthew 27:3-10. Through the use of cross-cultural analysis with the Gainj of New Zealand, it argues that Judas's suicide is not a shameful act, but is an honorable one that atones for Judas's "sin" of betraying Jesus's innocent blood.
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"That soul up there who suffers most of all," my guide explained, "is Judas Iscariot: the one with head inside [Satan's mouth] and legs out kicking."
--Dante, THE DIVINE COMEDY: Inferno
Throughout the annals of history Judas fares poorly. In the early second century CE, Papias of Hierapolis claimed that Judas never believed ...
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