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on that first good friday
…in Alexandria, where there was a great need to damp down revolutionary feeling after the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. “Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Gospel of Mark, Hans Memling, Josephus Flavius, Josephus the Jewish War, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pontius Pilate, Rossano Gospels, Rossano Manuscript, Spencer Williams paintings, The Jewish War, Trial of Jesus
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the temple affair: politics and religion don’t mix
According to the Markan Gospel on its account of the Sanhedrin trial, after failing to get sufficient evidence about the Temple affair the high priest then asked Jesus directly whether he claimed to be the Messiah of Israel: “Are you … Continue reading
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Tagged Annas and Caiphas, Caiaphas High Priest, Flavius Josephus, Gospel of Mark, Josephus the Jewish War, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthias Stom, Mihaly Munkacsy, Pontius Pilate, Rossano Gospels, Rossano Manuscript, roy buchanan, Tacitus Roman Historian, Trial of Jesus, Vespasian destruction of the Second Temple, Vespasian Emperor
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guilty was the verdict : temple tantrum
The trial of Jesus. Was Christ condemned to death by the Jews, as tradition has held for so long? , those precursors of the Zionists, or was he really executed by the Romans as a political offender? …. …The author … Continue reading
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Tagged Emperor Vespasian, Flavius Josephus, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Gospel of Mark, Il Grechetto, Jesus and the Sanhedrin, Jesus cleansing the Temple, Josephus the Jewish War, King Herod, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Markan Gospel, Pontius Pilate, Rossano Manuscript, Tacitus Roman Historian, The Jewish Revolt, The Jewish War, Titus and Domitian, Trial of Jesus, valentin de Boulogne
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trial and sedition: tribute money and pay now plan
This triumph must have made the Jewish Revolt very real to the people of Rome; it was designed to render them vividly aware of the gravity of the danger from which the new emperor and his son had delivered them. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arch of Titus, Bob Dylan, Caravaggio, Daniel Sperber, Emperor Tiberius, Emperor Vespasian, Flavius Josephus, Josephus the Jewish War, King Herod, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Katsav, Pontius Pilate, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Shlomo Amar, Tacitus Roman Historian, Temple at Didyma, The Gospel of Mark, The Jewish War, Trial of Jesus, Vespasian destruction of the Second Temple, Woody Allen
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MAN, THE MARKET and THE MESSIAH
Pious consumption. As Easter is upon us, so is a recurring drama of what the holiday means. Believer based critiques as opposed to the deeply secular and atheistic. It is often a case of the message overwhelming the medium and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Alfred North Whitehead, Ben Bernanke, Caiaphas Sanhedrin, Caravaggio, Christian Ethics Today, Chrsit Before Caiaphus, Easter, Father Raymond J. de Souza, George Jonas, Giotto, Giotto di Bordone, Hans Memling, Harvey Cox, Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood Holy Grail, Jesus Christ, Jesus Easter, Johannes Vermeer, John Moore, Martin Scrosese, Mehmet Ali Agca, Michael Baigent, nathan greene, Nikos Kazantzakis, Pontius Pilate, Rembrandt, Richard Leigh, Steven D. Greydanus, Tertullian, The last Temptation of Christ Scrosese, Vermeer, William Blake, William Dafoe
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