----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 2:58 AM Subject: Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"
> At 01:54 AM 2/4/04, Jan Coffey wrote: > >--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/3/2004 6:02:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > writes: > > > If a group of Jews make a movie about WWII in the year 3950 will > >there be > > > > Germans complaining that it sheds them in a bad light? > > > What this in essence says is that the jews killed christ. Because > >of course > > > the leaders of germany were in fact guilty of the Holocaust. > > > >No, it ays that it realy doen't make a difference one way or another. > > > >I have no opinion, but after the way He layed into the Jewih > >leaders, I wouldn't dout that they would copitulate to the deire of > >the Romans. > > > > The question that is often posed, though, is why the Romans should > capitulate to the desire of the Jews? It was those Jewish leaders who saw > Jesus as a threat and wanted him put to death. However, they could not do > so legally: only the Romans could dispense capital punishment. Blasphemy > against the Jewish God, which they believed Jesus guilty of, while a > capital offense in the Law of Moses, was not any sort of offense at all > under Roman law. So those Jews (note that I am not saying all Jews were > responsible, just as not all Arabs were responsible for 9/11) had to > convince the Romans to find Jesus guilty of something which merited the > death penalty under Roman law in order to have him executed. Raymond Brown did an excellent historical analysis of this question in "The Death of the Messiah." It turns out that there was a very good working relationship between Pilate and Caiaphas. There were a number of false prophets at the time, and the two of them had a variety of ways of dealing with them. Sometimes they were whipped and sent out of town, sometimes they were crucified, sometimes they were small enough to be ignored. So, the interaction between the leaders as depicted in scripture does have verisimilitude. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
