ABSTRACT
When the gospels are regarded as unbiased, factual accounts of history, dangerous things happen: Jews are murdered as “Christ-killers”; homosexuals are strapped to fence posts and left to die for violating God’s “divine will”; and people who voluntarily die are regarded as betrayers of God. The Bible is used to justify this behavior and, as a newly baptized Christian, I am already tired of it. I have written this book in hopes of somehow contributing to a better understanding of Judas Iscariot and how his voluntary death might have been understood historically.
