Washington – For 2,000 years, Judas has been reviled for betraying Jesus. Now a newly translated ancient document seeks to tell his side of the story. The “Gospel of Judas” tells a far different tale ...

Judas Iscariot, long reviled as history’s quintessential betrayer, was actually the best friend of Jesus and turned him over to authorities only because Jesus asked him to, according to the Gospel of ...

Timing is everything. Jesus’ fatal confrontations with religious and political authorities in Jerusalem coincided with the crowds of pilgrims arriving for Passover. Almost 2,000 years later, attentive ...

Today, given that evildoers are sometimes equally instructive as good folks, the professor begins a series of articles on the great villains of the Bible. This week: Judas Iscariot. Of all the ...

An early Christian manuscript, including the only known text of the Gospel of Judas, has surfaced after 1,700 years, and it portrays Judas Iscariot not as a betrayer of Jesus but as his favored ...

Although the “Gospel of Judas” was discovered near the middle of Egypt in the 1970s, the National Geographic Society published the first modern text of the gospel in April 2006. It caused a stir among ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jesus Christ and the disciple Judas may not have had the smoothest of friendships, but that isn't the case with the actors playing ...

I heard a news clip promoting my recent speaking engagement at a church, and they mentioned that I deal with some of “the greatest sinners of all time.” I thought to myself: Do I? Would people who are ...

Loosely based on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Superstar follows the last week of Jesus Christ’s life. The ...

Jesus Christ and the disciple Judas may not have had the smoothest of friendships, but that isn't the case with the actors playing the religious figures on Fox's The Passion. Jesus (Canela) is ...