Easter Season Analysis
With all the hullabaloo over National Geographic’s announcement of the finding and translation of the long lost Gospel of Judus, I decided to give it a read this morning. Unfortunately, between the fragmentation of the document and the esoteric language that is fairly alien to someone really only familiar with the canonical Bible books (the talk of enlightened aeons only made me think of Final Fantasy X), it didn’t really impart much. Except that Jesus liked to laugh.
But from a story analysis point of view, the public focus of this gospel (that Judus was actually very close to Jesus, and Jesus was the one who planned for the betrayal) isn’t really in conflict with the accepted Gospels. Because there is no clear statement of Judus’ motivation in the current Bible and his agonized reaction after the betrayal could easily be seen as that of a man mourning rather than a man overcome with guilt.
Actually, one of my first thoughts when I heard the National Geographic radio ad was of my post about Snape in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. Of course, I’m also the one with a Harry Potter bookmark in my Bible.