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This quote is just one of 6 total Elaine Pagels quotes in our collection. Elaine Pagels is known for saying 'He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.' as well as some of the following quotes.
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.
Whether or not one agrees with it, or finds it interesting or reprehensible, it's an enormously interesting perspective on it that some follower of Jesus in the early Christian movement obviously thought was significant.
The Gospel of Judas is a real surprise. It pictures Judas ..not as the worst villain in the history of the world as he's been thought of in Christian tradition..but as the one disciple whom Jesus entrusts with secret understanding.
This quote is just one of 6 total Elaine Pagels quotes in our collection. Elaine Pagels is known for saying 'He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.' as well as some of the following quotes.