Jesus und Judas

In this essay on "Jesus and Judas," world-renowned Israeli writer Amos Oz tells how Jesus became a kind of companion for him from childhood. Born in Jerusalem, Amos Oz was raised to look away from churches and crucifixes because "this man" had brought so much evil upon the Jewish people. His grandfather's brother, the famous religious scholar Joseph Klausner, on the other hand, admonished the boy, "When you pass a church or a cross, look, look closely, because Jesus was one of us, one of our greatest teachers, one of our greatest visionaries." Amos Oz traces the New Testament accounts of Jesus and comes across the story of Judas' betrayal. It becomes a scandal for him. In the narrative of Judas he recognizes "the Chernobyl of Christian anti-Semitism" and the beginning and founding legend of an ominous two-thousand-year history. Who was Jesus, who Judas?: An engaging personal look!.