- Title: Sorry,Judas
- Date: 6th April 1993
- Summary: THIS FILM, INSPIRED BY HYAM MACCOBY'S BOOK JUDAS ISCARIOT AND THE MYTH OF JEWISH EVIL, EXPLORES THE ROLE OF JUDAS THE BETRAYER, THE EVIL ONE WHOSE GREED TRIGGERED THE FATEFUL EVENTS CULMINATING IN THE CRUXIFIXION OF JESUS CHRIST. THROUGHOUT HISTORY, JUDAS HAS CONTINUED HIS JOURNEY AS THE EMBODIMENT OF EVIL, THE ARCHETYPAL JEW, PORTRAYED AS SUCH IN LITERATURE, COUNTLESS PAINTINGS, PASSION PLAYS AND, MORE RECENTLY, FILMS. BUT WHAT IF JUDAS NEVER REALLY WAS A HISTORICAL FIGURE, THE DISCIPLE WHO BETRAYED CHRIST FOR A MERE 30 PIECES OF SILVER? ACCORDING TO HYAM MACCOBY HE WASN'T. JUDAS WAS A LATER INVENTION, WRITTEN INTO THE SCRIPTURES OF NECESSITY TO GIVE SECURE FOUNDATIONS TO THE CHRISTIAN MYTH.
- Description:WAS JUDAS INVENTED BY GENTILES IN ORDER TO APPORTION BLAME FOR THE JEWISH CRUCIFIXION.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Entertainment
- Producer:BROOK LAPPING PRODUCTIONS LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:06/04/1993
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s