Zur Rezeption der Gestalt des Judas Iskariot im Islam und im Judentum. Ein Versuch der Annäherung an ein heikles Thema (Teil II)

Abstract

Judas Iscariot plays an important role in the Jewish polemical work called „Toledot Yeshu“: A pious and godfearing rabbi, he becomes Jesus’ ultimate antagonist, the latter being a blasphemer leading the people of Israel astray. Thereby Toledot Yeshu’s presentation of Judas and Jesus is in sharp contrast with the four canonical gospels as well as the Islamic „Gospel of Barnabas“. A short comparison of the Toledot Yeshu with the Gospel of Barnabas shall conclude this study.