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== [[Literature]] ==

* The original Judas Iscariot is [[Alternate Character Interpretation|often considered]] to have had unselfish ~~intentions -- perhaps~~ he wanted to goad Jesus into all-out war with the Romans to liberate the Jews. And the [[Fanon Discontinuity|pseudopigraphical]] Gnostic ''Gospel of Judas'' actually claims that Jesus ''ordered him to do it''.

* The original Judas Iscariot is [[Alternate Character Interpretation|often considered]] to have had unselfish intentions—perhaps he wanted to goad Jesus into all-out war with the Romans to liberate the Jews. And the [[Fanon Discontinuity|pseudopigraphical]] Gnostic ''Gospel of Judas'' actually claims that Jesus ''ordered him to do it''.

** Jesus also asks Judas to betray him in ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ]]''. Thus fulfilling a vow Judas had made before Jesus took up the role of the Messiah, when he was just a carpenter making crosses for the Romans to crucify Jews upon.

** [[Jorge Luis Borges]] took this a step further, positing a mock-theory that Judas was the real Messiah; Jesus just sacrificed his mortal flesh, but Judas knowingly damned his soul in order to redeem humanity. Since this was presented as the final absurdity of a fictional academic in a fake academic essay, there's no way of knowing how seriously Borges took the idea.