Judas Iscariote : traître du passé, héraut de l’avenir. Accomplissement d’une fiction et mythe inachevé
Judas Iscariot: Traitor of the Past, Herald of the Future. Fulfillment of a Fiction and Unfinished Myth

Summary/Abstract: The reputation of Judas Iscariot is well established: he denounced Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, to the Roman authorities for the derisory sum of thirty deniers. He embodies the traitor that no reason can justify. The literary fortune of this first anti-hero is unprecedented in Western litera-tures. A revolution would have been accomplished by the discovery of an apocryphal gospel attributed to Judas, whose Gnostic testimony would alter the whole perspective of the Christ drama: just as Christ fulfilled the Father’s will, the disciple would have sacrificed his public integrity by fidelity to Christ, his master. The special status occupied by Judas in the pantheon of archetypal characters problematizes the freedom of the characters in the fictional worlds: in history, in litera-ture, in religion. Do these immortalized beings in the collective imagination still have the slightest freedom? As a result, the Gospel of Judas seems to rehabilitate a Judas Herald of Christ, opening literature to the edification of evil.

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