(urth) Who's Right?

[David Stockhoff]

James, I think that's a very insightful observation. Not just relevant 
to BOTNS etc., but to all of Wolfe's work.

On 12/3/2010 2:09 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>
>>     We're not talking about christianity. Lee asked what would a 20
>>     AD Jew find special about Jesus.
>>
>>
>>  That's hard to say, since we have no record of anything Jesus did 
>> between the ages of 12 and 30.  He doesn't seem to have begun any 
>> public teaching (besides the episode in the synagogue at age 12) 
>> before his baptism by John.  Very possibly a 20 AD Jew might not have 
>> found anything particularly special about him.
>
> Time and dislocation have made the Gospels very Wolfean. Jesus was a 
> very controversial figure. A lot of people did want him arrested and 
> humiliated or just plain dead for what he said--presumably regarding 
> the Temple and it's traditions. People are constantly trying to catch 
> him up or talk himself into trouble. The disciples considered it 
> suicide for them to even enter Jerusalem. But the authorities only 
> wanted to punish him if they could avoid direct 
> implication--presumably because most people considered him a holy man 
> because of his deeds. It's not until his final insult--driving the 
> money changers out of the Court of the Gentiles that the leaders felt 
> they had to "fish or cut bait".
>
> But none of this is systematically explained. It's all related in 
> subtext. So it's not a straight-forward answer why he was so 
> controversial, why he was attacked by mobs at least twice, etc. John's 
> Gospel says we have no more than a fraction of all he said.
>
> u+16b9
>
>>
>> -- 
>> Matt +
>>
>> Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
>>     Publilius Syrus (First century B.C.), Maxim 847
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