I, Judas.

New York:: Atheneum, 1977.. First Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: gray binding with green cloth at the spine; the top edge tint is red; a Good+ book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Red endpapers. Description: Panoramic dust jacket art by David M Christensen. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Judas Iscariot, the archetypal betrayer, considered through the ages the most heinous of villains, is viewed by Taylor Caldwell and Jess Stearn from an entirely new and revolutionary perspective. In this book they have created a new gospel; they have allowed Judas to speak for himself and to reveal the causes and motivations of his own actions.. Here is Judas seen as himself betrayed both by the Romans and by the Jewish Sanhedrin who had promised that Jesus, if brought to trial, would be acquitted of all charges of treason.. Judas, who believed in the Master's divinity and saw in him the savior of the Jewish people, allowed himself to be misled because he hoped that, openly challenged, Jesus would be forced to assert once and for all his messianic role.''