{"product_id":"the-dark-disciple-vasileios-g-n-9798196771613","title":"The Dark Disciple: Judas Iscariot and the Mystery That Has Haunted Christianity for Two Thousand Years","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho was Judas Iscariot really?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor two thousand years, he has been remembered as the ultimate traitor - the disciple who sold Jesus for thirty silver coins and sealed his fate with a kiss in the darkness of Gethsemane. But behind the familiar story lies one of the greatest mysteries in religious history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas Judas driven by greed, political fanaticism, disappointment, or something far more complex? Did he betray Jesus - or did he believe he was forcing the arrival of God's kingdom? Why do the Gospels themselves disagree about his motives and death? And why has every generation, from the early Church to the modern world, reinvented him in a different image?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending rigorous historical research with vivid narrative storytelling, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Disciple\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers deep into the turbulent world of first-century Judea: a land under Roman occupation, filled with revolutionary hopes, apocalyptic expectations, and fierce struggles over faith, power, and identity. Drawing on the New Testament, apocryphal gospels, Church Fathers, and modern scholarship, this book explores Judas not as a flat villain, but as one of the most tragic and psychologically complex figures in the history of Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA journey through betrayal, politics, theology, and myth, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Disciple\u003c\/i\u003e challenges everything we think we know about the man whose name became a curse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vasileios G. N\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798196771613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Vasileios G. N","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173301919999,"sku":"9798196771613","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dark-disciple-vasileios-g-n-9798196771613","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}