Just in time for the Easter season, the folks at National Geographic play image consultant to Judas Iscariot. In a manuscript released yesterday, the magazine suggests that Judas long the villain in the Easter Story, may have actually just been doing as asked by Jesus. Thus completing the mission of the Son of God on earth.
It's bound to be controversial and already has religious scholars debating the merits of revising the betrayal story in a more favourable light towards Judas.
The manuscript itself has quite a history to it. Titled the "Gospel of Judas" it supposedly dates back to 300 AD and is a translation of an earlier Greek work. It sat somewhere in the desert for roughly 1600 years before its discovery in the 1970's. For the last sixteen years it has apparently sat in a Long Island safety deposit box, from which it was purchased in the year 2000 in rather deteriorating condition.
The revelation of its existence now comes just as the Hollywood Blockbuster movie The Da Vinci code is about to be released in May. Some suggest that it's been produced now so as to capitalize on the interest surrounding the movie and all things tied to it biblical.
One thing is certain if the Gospel of Judas is proven to be a true and correct account of the time of Jesus, there will be an awful lot of movies re made over the next few years.
From Ben Hur to the Passion of Christ, we might be calling rewrite.
And then there's the entire works of the Christian world, if Judas is no longer a villain there is going to be some serious additions to the tomes of Christianity.
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