With a rich back catalogue to plunder,
Judas Priest ensured that pretty much every album was covered, delivering gold-plated classics such as the thunderous Victim of Changes and Hell Bent For Leather, delivered with Halford straddling a Harley Davidson motorbike, to the hits Breaking The Law and You've Got Another Thing Coming.
The band opened with Heavy Metal God, as singer Rob Halford announced, "we've got a lot of metal for you tonight!"
Judas Priest are undoubtedly giants of the British metal scene and their sound, especially in the live arena, is a huge wall of ear-bleeding mega riffs.
The Same Jeans singer, who played a double header at Glasgow's Barrowland last night and Wednesday, told the Razz: "I've liked the character of
Judas since I was wee.
The other epithet given to
Judas, "the one who handed him over" (10:4), immediately catches the reader's attention and raises ominous questions about
Judas' future.
Highlighted is the increasing link between
Judas and "Jew," in which the latter are vilified for their role as "Christ-killers" while the former takes on stereotyped Semitic features.
As well, Gubar wisely points out the role of the
Judas figure as a psychological basis for the genesis of antisemitism.
Although it is usually very difficult to assert that any text is the first of its kind, the Middle English poem '
Judas' has long been regarded as an exception to that rule: though certainly not the first, it is at least the earliest known ballad written in English.
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Clement of Alexandria observes: "Not that they became apostles through being chosen for some distinguished peculiarity of nature, since also
Judas was chosen along with them.
'Don't be a
Judas, shun wealth idolatry' !-- -- Edu Punay (The Philippine Star) - April 18, 2019 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle yesterday called on the Filipino faithful to avoid idolatry of wealth.