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== [[Literature]] ==
* The original Judas Iscariot is [[Alternate Character Interpretation|often considered]] to have had unselfish
** 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.
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