Editing Judas Iscariot (section)

==Art and literature==
[[File:Autun cathédrale chapiteau pendaison de Judas.jpg|thumb|[[Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun|Cathédrale Saint-Lazare]], [[Autun]]. Judas hangs himself]]

* Judas is the subject of one of the oldest surviving English ballads, which dates from the 13th century. In the ballad [[Judas (ballad)|"Judas"]], the blame for the betrayal of Christ is placed on Judas's sister.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baum |first1=Paull Franklin |title=The English Ballad of Judas Iscariot |jstor-access=free |journal=PMLA |date=1916 |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=181–89 |doi=10.2307/456954 |jstor=456954}}</ref>
* One of the most famous depictions of Judas Iscariot and his kiss of betrayal of Jesus is ''[[The Taking of Christ (Caravaggio)|The Taking of Christ]]'' by Italian Baroque artist [[Caravaggio]], painted in 1602.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/caravbr-2.htm |title= Caravaggio's ''The Taking of Christ'' |website=NGA |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150114203245/http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/caravbr-2.htm |archive-date=2015-01-14}}</ref>
* [[Edward Elgar]]'s [[oratorio]], ''[[The Apostles (Elgar)|The Apostles]]'', depicts Judas as wanting to force Jesus to declare his divinity and establish the kingdom on earth.<ref name="notes">{{Citation |editor-last=Adams|editor-first=Byron|title=Edward Elgar and His World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ubxdak5Kxv4C&pg=PA140 |year=2007|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-13446-8|pages=140–41}}</ref>
* In ''Trial of Christ in Seven Stages'' (1909) by [[John Brayshaw Kaye]], the author did not accept the idea that Judas intended to betray Christ, and the poem is a defence of Judas, in which he adds his own vision to the biblical account of the story of the trial before the Sanhedrin and Caiaphas.<ref name="mag">''[[The Magazine of poetry]], Volume 2, Issues 1–4'' (1890) [[Charles Wells Moulton]], Buffalo, New York {{cite web |year=1890 |title=The Magazine of Poetry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdgKAAAAYAAJ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313090846/https://books.google.com/books?id=EdgKAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s |archive-date=2017-03-13 |access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref>
* In [[Mikhail Bulgakov]]'s novel ''[[The Master and Margarita]]'', Judas is paid by the high priest to testify against Jesus, who had been inciting trouble among the people of Jerusalem. After authorizing the crucifixion, [[Pontius Pilate|Pilate]] suffers an agony of regret and turns his anger on Judas, ordering him assassinated.
* "[[Three Versions of Judas|Tres versiones de Judas]]" (English title: "Three Versions of Judas") is a short story by Argentine writer and poet [[Jorge Luis Borges]]; it was included in Borges's anthology ''[[Ficciones]]'', published in 1944, and revolves around the main character's doubts about the canonical story of Judas who instead creates three alternative versions.<ref>[http://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=430&keyword= Equinox – Books – Book Details<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515064643/http://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=430 |date=15 May 2012}}</ref>
* In ''[[The Last Days of Judas Iscariot]]'' (2005), a critically acclaimed play by [[Stephen Adly Guirgis]], Judas is given a trial in [[Purgatory]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Ben Brantley |title=THEATER REVIEW; Judas Gets His Day in Court, but Satan Is on the Witness List |url=http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9B06E0DB133DF930A35750C0A9639C8B63 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=3 March 2005 |access-date=6 November 2013}}</ref>
* ''[[The Book of Longings]]'' by [[Sue Monk Kidd]] features Judas as the adopted brother of the fictional protagonist, Ana. Judas is reimagined as a [[Zealot]] extremist who only betrays Jesus in the belief that he will resist the authorities and trigger a Judean revolution against Rome.<ref>Scharper, Diane. [https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/book-reviews/sue-monk-kidds-new-novel-imagines-jesus-life-and-fictional-marriage "Sue Monk Kidd's new novel imagines Jesus' life and fictional marriage"], ''[[National Catholic Reporter]]'', 12 June 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2024.</ref>