HAVE YOU BEEN TOLD THAT JESUS AND JUDAS WERE TWINS?

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THE MAJESTY OF JUDAS reveals the untold story of the real Judas Iscariot: the Lion of Judah, the Unsung Hero and the Saviour of the World.

 

As the book opens we see Jesus, Judas, and Mary Magdalene who are gathering and protecting a group of escaped slave children known simply as The People.

 

Mary Magdalene is the real power behind the group, bent on achieving the destruction of the current world, and the foundation of a new world to come.

 

Magdalene wields wild and untrammelled power but there are grave risks which come from being so unconstrained. Eventually She makes a disastrous error that slates the whole world for ruin.

 

The burden falls to Judas to make an act of courage and sacrifice if the world is to be saved from the terrible consequences of Her mistake.

 

In the end Judas succeeds, but despite his great love and great loyalty he becomes the most slandered son of the world, the self-hanged God so viciously accused for the latter part of history.

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THE MAJESTY OF JUDAS re-imagines and re-tells of the central narrative of western scripture, focussing on the loving but eventually tragic dynamic between Judas, his twin brother Jesus, and Mary Magdalene.

 

Much of the story agrees with Muslim scholars who say that Jesus was never crucified, that it was merely made to look as though he was crucified, and that someone else was made to look like him so that Jesus would be saved from the cross. Many Muslims also believe that is was Judas Iscariot who went to die in Jesus' place.

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The work is simultaneously reverent, radical, sensual and tragic. Each one of the main characters is squarely heroic and thus also fundamentally flawed, and this One Splendid Chance at a New World is squandered amidst tears and the wreckage of broken vows.

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From a technical point of view the work aims to combine a full literary aesthetic with a completely full emotional effect, erasing the schism between Lit Fiction and YA fiction that should never have been allowed to occur.