Three Versions of Judas
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"Three Versions of Judas" is a metafictional short story by Jorge Luis Borges that reimagines the biblical figure of Judas through a series of fictional theological interpretations.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
metafictional work
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Jorge Luis Borges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception |
considered a key example of Borges’s metafictional style
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widely studied in literary criticism ⓘ |
| fictionalAuthorWithinStory | Nils Runeberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Sur (magazine) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
metafiction
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philosophical fiction ⓘ theological fiction ⓘ |
| hasBiblicalFigure |
Jesus Christ
NERFINISHED
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Judas Iscariot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalCitationStyle | academic footnotes and references ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | Ficciones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian biblical exegesis
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theological debates on heresy ⓘ |
| languageStyle |
erudite
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scholarly ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Latin American literature
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magic realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Nils Runeberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | fictional essay ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
metafiction
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pseudo-scholarly commentary ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blurring boundaries between theology and fiction
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reimagining Judas as a central salvific figure in some interpretations ⓘ use of invented bibliographies and sources ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Tres versiones de Judas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Borges’s cycle of pseudo-essays ⓘ |
| setting | early 20th-century Scandinavian theology milieu ⓘ |
| structure | three theological interpretations of Judas ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Christian theology
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Judas Iscariot NERFINISHED ⓘ divine incarnation ⓘ heresy ⓘ nature of betrayal ⓘ problem of evil ⓘ |
| theme |
limits of theological reasoning
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paradox in religious thought ⓘ reinterpretation of biblical figures ⓘ relationship between fiction and criticism ⓘ unreliable scholarship ⓘ |
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