How to explain that, among the disciples of Jesus, Judas is the one who betrays him and delivers him to death? Does this betrayal have a historical basis? Who is Judas? Is he called the Iscariot because he comes from a village in Judea near Jerusalem? Is he the only Judean? Could it be all of Judea that betrays Jesus under this name? But wouldn't he also be the Jew? The one who takes on the wrong role and embodies Jewishness after the Christians broke with the synagogue?

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