What Jesus was, and what he was not.

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DickParasite: Dec 2, 2004; Slippery Tilde

Genesplicer posted:

One thing that all the conservative fundamentalist Christians seem to be unaware of is the fact that not one single person mentioned in the bible could be considered their definition of a "White Person."

Pontius Pilate was Italian and killed jesus but I couldn't name another.

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DickParasite: Dec 2, 2004; Slippery Tilde

Big Beef City posted:

He also backed Sejanus, initially, which is interesting, if you're into history.

It's something that apparently was used (I would guess almost certainly without evidence) to suggest that this was used against him by Jewish leaders as leverage to convince him to crucify Jesus.

In otherwords, he backed Sejanus because apparently Sejanus intervened on his behalf to make him governor of Judea (idk why). However, later on when Sejanus' own, larger power grab failed, Jewish leaders in his area of control realized that Pilot had thrown his chips in with the failed coup and said "We can make this worse for you unless you play ball and give us jesus". It's just that over time, like, nobody except Roman history nerds remembers who Sejanus was or why that was interesting.

That's cool I'm no history buff so I never heard of Sejanus.

I also have a notion that the gospels had to be reinterpreted after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the second temple, and that the expression "take no thought for the morrow" only makes sense in a truly desperate scenario. I'm sure these aren't new ideas. Do you (or anyone) have any book suggestions that put the new testament era into the broader history of that era?

E: just saw your edit that sounds rad as hell

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