Justin Cartwright

Justin Cartwright on redheads, anti-Semitism and the betrayal of Christ

Reviews of Judas by Peter Stanford and The True Herod by Geza Vermes, which turn an unflinching light on the villains of the Bible

Giotto’s ‘The Kiss of Judas’ in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua. Getty Images 
issue 04 April 2015

Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the Catholic Herald. Writing Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle must have been a difficult task because there are no facts. Judas may quite possibly never have existed at all, and if he did, the Judas kiss may not have happened.

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