My Name Was Judas
  • Published: 15 November 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099501381
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00

My Name Was Judas

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Some forty years after Jesus' death, Judas tries to set the record straight, and refutes his reputation as the betrayer.

We all know the story of Jesus told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what about the version according to Judas?

In this witty, original and teasingly controversial account, some forty years after the death of Jesus, Judas finally tells the story as he remembers it. Looking back on his childhood and youth from an old age the gospel writers denied him, Judas recalls his friendship with Jesus; their schooling together; their families; the people who would go on to be disciples and followers; their journeys together and their dealings with the powers of Rome and the Temple.

His is a story of friendship and rivalry, of a time of uncertainty and enquiry, a testing of belief, endurance and loyalty.
  • Published: 15 November 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099501381
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

C. K. Stead

C. K. Stead was Professor of English at the University of Auckland until 1986. In 1984, he was awarded the CBE for services to New Zealand literature. He has published twelve volumes of poetry, two volumes of stories, a memoir and several works of criticism, edited the Penguin Modern Classics Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield and published several novels, including The Secret History of Modernism and Mansfield.

C.K. Stead won the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for 'Last Season's Man' in March 2010.

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Praise for My Name Was Judas

[An] elegant, calm novel...Stead writes a cool, reasonable prose......Stead maintains an eye unblinkingly opposed to the transcendental

Guardian

Brilliantly imagined...Among Stead's many achievements is a convincing social, political and physical backdrop...his creation of a coherent, rival story - clever, moving and sometimes witty, with fully human characters - is nothing short of a revelation

Sam Phipps, Herald

A gifted and intelligent novelist

Independent

A subtly potent revisionist account of the life and death of Jesus

Sunday Times

CK Stead, New Zealand's most distinguished man of letters - scholar, critic and poet, as well as novelist - has written a fiction that is remarkable, intelligent and moving

Allan Massie, Scotsman

Stead's book delights in subtle comedy and takes care to puncture all kinds of minor myths...Written with glowing simplicity and rich in delicate humour...[A] thought-provoking, witty and highly topical novel

James Wood, Daily Telegraph

C. K. Stead is challenging, fun, urbane and brilliant. Read him

Spectator

A pleasingly unpredictable mix of traditional and radical... It's clever, thought-provoking

Independent