I don’t think enough of us raised in the Christian tradition think enough about how when Jesus was born, there was a king (Herod), but when he was killed, there was a Roman governor (Pilate).
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I don’t think enough of us raised in the Christian tradition think enough about how when Jesus was born, there was a king (Herod), but when he was killed, there was a Roman governor (Pilate). It was a ridiculously volatile time in Judaea and it’s just completely ignored by the gospels, in a kind of “don’t mention the war” way.
Oh, and 0️⃣ *clank*
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@futzle I’ve told the story before about having an argument on a polling booth with (IIRC) a one nation volunteer who refused to concede that Jesus had ever been a refugee. I finally said you read about the flight into Egypt every Christmas you idiot, it’s the start of the book of Matthew
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@futzle BUT more seriously. I’ve read a Jewish perspective on the Gospels which is that they were written-edited-compiled well after the actual life of Jesus, in the context of early Christian debates about how Jewishness and Romanness could be reconciled, and they come down on the side of accommodation to Roman power (unsurprisingly). Consider Jesus’s well known advice about Caesar’s head on the coin.
So the ‘don’t mention the war’ subtext is in that sense very deliberate
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@liamvhogan @futzle ye gods I miss Geordie