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Donald Trump As Judas Iscariot

October 17, 2016 by Ali Davis 2 Comments

In his short story – really a fictionalized academic essay – “The Three Versions of Judas,” Jorge Luis Borges plays with the idea of Judas Iscariot as the holiest figure in the New Testament. It’s the first version of Judas that interests us here. Borges’s fictional scholar points out that it wasn’t logically necessary for…

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