Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: lih@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Jews - Our Christian Attitude - (was advice to David Buxton) Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 89 07:43:47 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Columbia University Lines: 37 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article ejalbert@phoenix.princeton.edu (Edmund Jason Albert) writes: > >inaccuracies in the Biblical record. The Sanhedrin could not have >possibly met when claimed in the New Testament because it would have >been during the holiday of Passover. The record probably got distorted >since the gospels at the earliest were written around AD 70, when there >was Jewish persecution of Christians due to the latter's refusal to join >in the revolt against Rome. This led to an anti-Semitism among the >Christians of that day which is unfortunately reflected in the gospels. > >Jason Albert >Princeton University Interesting that you raised this point, since my paper topic is on the Trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin. It has been argued by several scholars that the account of the trial in Matthew and Mark is probably quite inaccurate in parts. Most importantly, Jesus never claimed anything that could have been charged as blasphemous; Jesus' comments certianly were preposterous to the Jewish leaders, but would not have been considered blasphemous. Mark and Matthew claim that the Sanhedrin accused Jesus of blasphemy, however the punishment for blasphemy was stoning. Why was Jesus not stoned then? Scholars point more to Luke's account, where Jesus was not accused of blasphemy, and probably did not face the Sanhedrin, but a private interrogation by the high priest Caiaphas and the scribes. After interrogating Jesus, they brought him to Pilate so that he [Pilate] might find Jesus guilty of an uprising against the Roman government. ___________________________________________________________ """""""""" / \ | @ @ | | Andrew "Fuz" Lih Columbia University Center | < > > ___/ Academic Computing for Computing Activities | \ \__/ / <___ / \____/ \ lih@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu AJLUS@CUVMB.BITNET / \ lih@cs.columbia.edu ...rutgers!columbia!cunixc!lih | \__________________________________________________________/