The Judas Testament (novel) The Judas Testament (novel) The Judas Testament is a 1994 novel by Daniel Easterman. The plot revolved around the discovery of an epistle in Moscow by a scholar of the Aramaic language, who becomes the unwitting pawn in a murderous struggle by various crypto-political forces to possess the scroll. The scroll is not the Gospel of Judas but an autobiography of the historical Jesus in his own hand. It is a "Judas Testament" in that its contents betrays the conventional image of Jesus as Christ and instead reveals him to have been a Judean religious figure known as the Teacher
Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament indicates that Jesus will be with the faithful to the end of the age. The title Christ used in the English language is from the Greek ("Kristos"), via the Latin "Christus". It means "anointed one". The Greek is a loan translation of the Hebrew "mashiaħ" (מָשִׁיחַ) or Aramaic "mshiħa" (מְשִׁיחָא), from which we derive the English word Messiah. Christ has now become a name, one part of the name "Jesus Christ", but originally it was a title (the Messiah) and not a name; however its use in "Christ Jesus" is a title. In the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible