Justin Cartwright

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  • Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle

    Peter Stanford

    Hodder, pp. 309

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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