# Who Killed Jesus

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jesus/114233>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [June 15, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jesus/114233 "2002-06-15T16:16:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![chrisweuve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@chrisweuve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisweuve)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jesus/114233/1 "2002-06-15T16:16:41Z")

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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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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jesus/114233/2 "2002-06-15T21:36:23Z")

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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?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mjesuskill.html)

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**Author:** ![Hazel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Hazel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazel)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jesus/114233/3 "2002-06-19T20:22:46Z")

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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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**Author:** ![chrisweuve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@chrisweuve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisweuve)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-killed-jesus/114233/4 "2002-06-19T21:58:45Z")

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