http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002916272_judas07.html National
Geographic releases "Gospel of Judas" translationSeattle Times, United States
-version of the story could help mend fences between Christians and Jews. For
centuries, Judas has symbolized Jews' rejection of Jesus. ...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-judas7apr07,1,4608547.story?coll=la-headlines-nationJudas
Is No Traitor in Long-Lost Gospel Los Angeles Times
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/14286321.htmRediscovered
gospel offers radically new look at Judashttp://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060407/NEWS06/604070505/1012Long-lost
gospel casts Judas in favorable light Indianapolis Star
Maybe there's even more healing to come between the two faiths.
That assumption of 'Judas the traitor' is not at all so according to the finding, that myth that followed persecution for years with rivers of blood by zealot Christians upon innocent Jews.
That myth that became one of terrible haters' (including today's Islamic Jihadists and Arab militant racists) most favorite tools in stigmatize a Jew with some "skepticism" in honesty.
Though relations between Jews & Christians are very brotherly today, added to it the great Pope John Paul II apology for Jews' suffering of 2,000 years by the church and (as he put it) "not blaming them for Jesus' death".
There's hope after all even for that myth as well.
Whether you are a non Christian or an enlightened Christian that knows that Judas feared an uprising and a dangerous backlash by the Roman cruel tyrants or you are a Christian that sees now the documents -- that the French earlier bishop dismissed, because it would interfere with vilifying Judas, -- and see Judas as a 'good man' from a very Christian point.
Either way, the symbol of Judas is rightfully being exonerated.
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