A Time for Judas
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| Author | Morley Callaghan |
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| Cover artist | Brant Cowie |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Macmillan of Canada |
Publication date | September 1983 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 247 pp |
| ISBN | 0-7715-9772-X (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-312-80513-6 (paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 10211755 |
| 813/.52 19 | |
| LC Class | PR9199.3.C27 T55 1983 |
| Preceded by | No Man's Meat and the Enchanted Pimp |
| Followed by | Our Lady of the Snows |
A Time for Judas is a historiographic metafiction novel by Canadian author Morley Callaghan, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1983.[1][2][3][4]
The novel tells the story of a man in modern times who discovers tablets written by a scribe named Philo of Crete or Philo the Greek. In the story, these tablets are from the time of Jesus and are Philo's telling of Jesus' last days and the aftermath, including his resurrection. This modern-day man writes a novel based on these tablets. The bulk of the real novel is the fictional novel, i.e. a retelling of sorts of Philo's story.
The story is similar to that presented in the Gospel of Judas, a Gnostic gospel that surfaced around the time of the book's publication.
