Believing he has found the Messiah, Judas enthusiastically becomes one of Jesus' disciples, but he is forced to confront difficult truths when Jesus refuses to cave to social conventions and act on Judas's vision of making the nation free from Roman rule.

Reverend Ryan Quinn is CEO of an ecclesiology research organization. With a team of Egyptologists recruited from New York museums, he embarks on a vaguely defined mission funded liberally by the Vatican, but also by a mysterious family. The narrative takes us to New York, France, Italy, Egypt, and New Mexico. The investigative team visits the Oasis of Fayoum, the Coptic caves of Naqlun, and the catacombs of Khnum Pharaoh Akhenaton's City of the Dead. There are twists along the way, a dead priest's notes to be deciphered, bizarre, ritual executions, and a startling conclusion that will disturb many.

The biblical scholar recounts the events surrounding the discovery and handling of the Gospel of Judas, and provides an overview of its content, in which Judas is portrayed as a faithful disciple.

When Carson, a young girl living with cancer, is bestowed with age-old magic by a rebellious sorcerer named Iscariot, she must navigate her new powers, face the life she had thought she left behind forever, and take on the order of magicians who want to control her destiny. Carson discovers that Iscariot's intentions might not have been as altruistic as it first appeared, and learns the hard way that magic comes at a cost.

Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner.--[book cover].

The Iscariot is a novel about Judas Iscariot and his effort at regaining life. When he is successful and coming of age he faces the challenge of fi nding a priest of the Roman Catholic faith who must offer him absolution for his betrayal of Christ if he is to live past the age of 29. 29 is the age at which he supposedly took his own life. So begins the seduction of Beth Lyles and the released anger of Judas upon the woman Heather Cox. When a young girl she betrayed him by having an abortion and fl eeing an old ranch house. She and 4 other vagrant youths have been living in the abandoned home. She is currently a televangelist with a vast TV audience out of Dallas, Texas. The unsuspecting women must either bathe or drink from a water source Judas has died in and into which his blood has run. Through the centuries he has been able, on several occasions to gain a rebirth, but has not been able to fi nd a priest who will give him absolution for his betrayal of Christ. Will he be able to fi nd such a priest in Bodega Bay, California?

Leonid Andreyev is widely considered one of the most talented writers in Russian literature. In his prose, he reflected the influence of A. Chekhov's realism, the fascination with psychological paradoxes of F. Dostoevsky, and a constant obsession with the insignificance of life and the inevitability of death, in the manner of L. Tolstoy. In " Judas Iscariot," Leonid Andreyev leads us to reflect on the true role of Judas in the Passion of Christ and suggests a possible interpretation: that the betrayal perpetrated by Judas was a kind of destiny to which he could not resist. It will be up to the reader to answer this and other questions, or perhaps, be left even more in doubt after reading this small masterpiece by Leonid Andreyev.