The Gospel of Judas

Among the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea, a remarkable scroll is discovered. Written in the first century AD, it purports to be the true account of the life of Jesus, as told by Youdas the sicarios – Judas Iscariot.

The task of proving – or disproving – its validity falls to Father Leo Newman, one of the world’s leading experts in Koine, the demotic Greek of the Roman Empire. But as Leo absorbs himself in Judas’s testimony, the stories of his own life haunt him. The story of his forbidden yet irresistible love for a married woman. The story of his mother’s passionate and tragic affair in war-time Rome. They are stories of love and betrayal that may threaten his faith just as deeply as the Gospel of Judas…