UMC News: What Can Christians Learn from Judas?
What can Christians learn from Judas? As the disciple who betrayed Christ to arrest and crucifixion, he can be a complicated and confusing figure. United Methodist Church News reporter Heather Hahn interviewed Jennifer Wright Knust, Boston University School of Theology Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, about the place of Judas in Christian theology. Revisiting Judas’ story, said Professor Knust, is “an invitation to extend compassion as Jesus did in the Passion.”
Dr. Jennifer Wright Knust teaches and conducts research on the transmission and reception of the Gospels, ancient rhetoric and early Christian discourse, and gender and Christian origins. Her publications include Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity (Columbia University Press 2005), Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions on Sex and Desire (HarperOne 2011) and, with Zsuzsanna Varhélyi, the edited volume Sacrifice in the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford University Press 2011).