Contents

Prologue: The Field of Blood, Jerusalem

Part One:

Judas – the evidence

  1   What’s in a Name?

  2   The Twenty-Two: Judas in the Gospels

  3   The Garden of Gethsemane, Jerusalem

  4   Life After Death: How Judas Lived On

  5   A Good Betrayal? The Gospel of Judas

Part Two:

Judas – Satan’s tool

  6   The Making of the Medieval Judas

  7   Devilish Visions in Volterra

  8   Bags of Money: Judas and the Original Merchant-Bankers

  9   An East Anglian Journey in the Company of the Arch-Traitor

Part Three:

Judas – God’s agent

10   How Judas Became an Enlightenment Hero

11   The Judas Myth and Modern Anti-Semitism

12   Giving Judas a Second Glance

13   Three Contemporary Versions of Judas

        Epilogue: Sir Laurence Whistler’s Judas window, Dorset

        Acknowledgements

        Notes

        Index