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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: _Jesus: A Life_ by A.N. Wilson
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.134249.25127@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
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- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 13:42:49 GMT
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- Publius (pub@riscee.pko.dec.com) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec28.053547.18160@cs.ucla.edu> pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Bra
- d Pierce) writes:
- : >
- : > "+ The `servant of the high priest' who accompanied Judas in leading
- : > authorities to arrest Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane may have
- : > been the Apostle Paul himself before his conversion.
- :
- : This only shows how little the author knows the history. Apostle Paul
- : was a Pharisee before his regeneration, and everyone who has the
- : slightest idea of the history of that period knows that Pharisees
- : were the bitter political as well as theological enemies of the high
- : priest.
-
- If the "Pharisees were the bitter political as well as theological enemies of
- the high priest", then how could Saul approach the high priest and get letters
- of introduction to distant Jewish communities for the purpose of persecution of
- the Christians?
-
- For that matter, why does Paul never claim that he was a student of Gamaliel
- even when he is at his most autobiographical? Only Acts, Luke, makes this
- claim for Paul.
-
- :
- : > ... By
- : > unfairly blaming the Jews, the Gospel stories precipitated 2,000
- : > years of Christian antisemitism.
- :
- : The Gospel stories never blame the Jews for the condemnation of Jesus.
- : Gospels blame the Roman-appointed high priest for that crime. Anyone
- : who has the slightest idea of the history knows that the high priests in
- : that period were Roman puppets hated by the rabbis and the Jewish populace.
- : By equating the high priest with the Jews, the critics have exposed their own
- : total ignorance of the history.
-
- My understanding is that the Sanhedrin was composed of both Pharisees and
- Sadducees, thus they were the representatives of all the Jews when they
- condemned JC (Matt 26:57-68, Mark 14:53-65, Luke 22:66-71).
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