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Who was Judas Iscariot and how did he get his surname?

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According to the gospels, Judas Iscariot was one of the disciples of Jesus. Jews were universally known by their father's name, and it would have been normal for any Jew to be known (in Aramaic) as Joseph son of Heli, or the like. It was certainly the practice of Romans and Greeks to have surnames, but almost unheard of for a Jew to have a surname, and Judas was a Jew.

Some scholars have cast doubt on the historicity of Judas Iscariot. John Shelby Spong (Jesus for the NonReligious) says that the name Iscariot seems to be based on sicarii, a Latin term for 'assassins'. It seems too much of a coincidence that the traitor Judas should (alone among the apostles) have a surname, and that surname could provide a clue as to his future actions.

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