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...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...
...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 who coz ens the charismatic but ingenuous Jesus into leading an abortive insurrection. Far from being the betrayer, Judas is framed by Peter, the real traitor...
...many Christians, the Van Greenaway Judas will not only seem bizarre but blasphemous: in the Judas gos pel, it is Judas, for instance, who utters (in a somewhat different context) the Eucharistic formula for the Last Sup per. Yet Van Greenaway's anticlericalism is usually witty, and only occasion ally foolish...
...Children's books may not read any better than (or as well as) they did in the past, but they look better; the skilled artwork is generally better tied into the text and better printed than it was in the days of great illustrators such as Tenniel, Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane and N. C. Wyeth...