RE: Freeing guilty criminals at Passover?
August 8, 2020 at 7:43 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2020 at 8:03 pm by Rev. Rye.)
Of course, if you treat the gospel accounts as being specifically skewed to try and curry favour with the Romans while denigrating the Jewish community from whence it sprang (helpfully skewed in such a way that even when the many inaccuracies pop up, the reader can’t readily fact-check), it does make more sense.
Of course, there’s also the possibility, raised by the Jesus Seminar, that the crucifixion was less because of his pissing off the Sanhedrin and more due to this little outburst a few days prior:
I’m not sure how precedented crucifying a guy for disorderly conduct was in the days of Tiberius (though given that it was the Temple, a major site in a region rife with resistance groups, this might have been the first century equivalent of picking fights at a Vichy/Nazi rally in Occupied France), but it at least makes more sense than taking the Gospel accounts at face value and expecting them to line up with the historical record.
Of course, there’s also the possibility, raised by the Jesus Seminar, that the crucifixion was less because of his pissing off the Sanhedrin and more due to this little outburst a few days prior:
I’m not sure how precedented crucifying a guy for disorderly conduct was in the days of Tiberius (though given that it was the Temple, a major site in a region rife with resistance groups, this might have been the first century equivalent of picking fights at a Vichy/Nazi rally in Occupied France), but it at least makes more sense than taking the Gospel accounts at face value and expecting them to line up with the historical record.
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