Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed amendment also contradicted what many liberal Senators have been declaiming for years: that the U.S. should not meddle in other countries' affairs, that free and unrestricted trade is in the best interest of everyone. John Foster Dulles was excoriated for preaching the American gospel to wayward nations; whenever the U.S. intervened abroad, however gingerly, it was bound to suffer a certain amount of liberal rebuke. Yet here were liberals telling the Russians how to behave at home -although many of them would hardly have suggested a trade embargo of the Soviet Union because of similar treatment meted...
...JUDAS GOSPEL by PETER VAN GREENAWAY 240 pages. Atheneum...
This spring Irving Wallace parlayed the Gospel according to St. James into a ponderous bestseller. Now comes a man called Peter Van Greenaway with The Judas Gospel. Agnostic Wallace wears a cloying, counterfeit faith on his sleeve in The Word's mawkish denouement, but Van Greenaway has the courage - and the talent - to spill his venom straight. The result is a brisk, tough and intellectually provocative novel...
...religious community of Qumran (where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found), and pauses to put down his last testament before he is killed. Enter, 1,900 years later, a British archaeologist named Mallory, who finds the scroll and takes it back to England for translation. Judas' gospel, as might be expected, contradicts nearly everything the other four evangelists have set down. Mirroring such recent pop events as Jesus Christ Superstar, as well as more serious re cent theories in Jesus guessing (especially S.G.F. Brandon's Jesus and the Zealots), Van Greenaway makes his Judas a fierce political rebel...
Ubermenschen. Mallory's secret, of course, is not secure. The Vatican learns of the gospel, goes into panic and dispatches a Dominican priest named Giovanni Delia Paresi to buy it from Mallory. Delia Paresi, however, sees his task more as a search-and-destroy mission than a commercial enterprise...