Who Killed Jesus

Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
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I would also recommend Paula Fredriksen’s Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews: A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity. She argues in favor of John’s account of multiple trips to Jerusalem throughout Jesus’s public life as a reason why Pilate may have acted the way he did – he knew Jesus wasn’t really a threat, but he needed to make an example of him. This would explain why the Romans didn’t go after his followers. The book has a fairly useful bibliography as well.

Her other book, From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus, is pretty good, too.

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Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, Chris, glad to have you with us.

It’s helpful when you are beginning a thread to post a link to the column or Staff Report upon which you are commenting. Helps to keep everyone on the same page, so to speak, and avoids duplication. In this case: Who killed Jesus?

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From the use of the word “also” in the 1st sentence of his/her post, I would guess that Chris was trying to add a reply to an existing topic, and only accidently started a new topic.

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Pretty much – this is what happens when you rush things. [grin]