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- From: Joe.Slater@f351.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Joe Slater)
- Sender: acsnet@csource.oz.au
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!jabaru.cec.edu.au!csource!acsnet
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: What did Judas betray?
- Message-ID: <721211122.AA08115@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 09:19:06
- Lines: 35
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- Friday October 30 1992, Bill Gripp writes to All:
-
- jds>> The Talmud states that the Sanhedrin stopped judging capital cases
- jds>> "seventy years before the destruction of the Temple". Even if seventy
- jds>> is just a round number, I'm pretty sure it's more than thirty, thus
- jds>> making any references to capital cases in Jesus' time fictitious.
-
- BG> Better check your math. If the temple was destroyed in 70AD, and
- BG> Jesus was crucified in 30AD, that's a gap of 40 years and your "pretty
- BG> sure it's more than thirty" is insufficient to prove your case of
- BG> fiction.
-
- Seventy is often used to mean "many", but it's generally a "many" on the close
- order of seventy. That is, I wouldn't be surprised if a particular reference to
- seventy referred to sixty or eighty-five, but I *would* be surprised if it were
- less than fifty.
-
- BG> Is it possible that reperucssions as a result of the crucifiction of
- BG> Jesus resulted in the Sanhedrin ceasing to judge captial crimes?
-
- Doesn't really sound plausible. On the subject of Jesus in Jewish sources of the
- time there is a great, echoing silence. We know the names of the people
- financing the resistance of Jerusalem, we know the names of famous families and
- so forth. Nary a reference to any populist Messiah that fits Jesus'
- description.
-
- BG> If you are truely skeptical, why is the Talmud considered more
- BG> reliable than the New Testament?
-
- Because it has a lot more corroborative detail and is not a work of propaganda.
-
- jds
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