El evangelio de Judas

A scroll is discovered, buried for over 1,600 years among the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea. Although fragile and crumbling, the scroll is mostly intact, the faded lines of Koine script still legible. When Father Leo Newman, a priest from Rome, is called to Jerusalem to help decipher the scroll's meaning, he soon discovers that the text appears to be a fifth gospel - one that tells the story of Jesus' life and crucifixion from the point of view of Judas Iscariot. If the scroll is authentic ?and if the radical, incendiary story it tells is true? all of Christianity itself will be open to a complete reinterpretation. Not to mention that his whole life, which has always been held together by the strength of his faith and his intellect, is poised on the brink of an abyss.