Justin Cartwright

Justin Cartwright on redheads, anti-Semitism and the betrayal of Christ

Reviews of Judas by Peter Stanford and The True Herod by Geza Vermes, which turn an unflinching light on the villains of the Bible

Giotto’s ‘The Kiss of Judas’ in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua. Getty Images 
issue 04 April 2015
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