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- From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: What did Judas betray?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.181421.11697@netcom.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 18:14:21 GMT
- Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov9.181421.11697
- References: <1992Nov5.235359.14072@imagen.com> <1992Nov7.200723.17356@hfsi.uucp> <1992Nov9.015251.13517@newsroom.utas.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Nov9.015251.13517@newsroom.utas.edu.au> Tim.ONeill@english.utas.edu.au (Tim O'Neill) writes:
- >
- >There is actually very good evidence that the Sanhedrin had jurisdiction over
- >capital cases of a religious nature. If Yeshua's crime was blasphemy, as the
- >gospels claim, then Jesus should have been taken out and stoned. The fact that
- >he was crucified by the Romans shows that his was considered a secular crime
- >against Roman law, not a religious one against jewish law. The idea that the
- >Jews couldn't execute him for blasphemy is nonsense, as the executions of
- >Stephen and James in Acts ably demonstrate.
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- Actually, several Talmudic passages, as well as other sources in the
- Rabbinical literature, state that Jesus WAS stoned to death, then
- hanged on a tree (as prescribed in Deut. 21:22-23).
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- It is only the Gospel accounts of the trial - that you and I, at least,
- can agree were fictions composed to promote somebody's political aims -
- that claim Jesus was crucified.
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- Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
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- Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!
-
- "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has
- broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or
- where it will end."
- - Emerson: Essay, "Circles"
-