The Earliest Gospel was not written by a Jew
Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 9:38 pm
While I disagree with Ehrman about his claim that the Jews couldn't invent an angelic messiah crucified by demons, I agree fully with him about the claim that the Jews couldn't invent an earthly messiah crucified by the Jews.
So only a gentile Christian could, after the 70, invent a rumor that proclaimed the Jewish crime against the Christ.
And he did so probably as reaction against the aggressive return of the Judaizers in the Gentile communities of the Diaspora, a return provoked by the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, meaning a real re-judaizing of a religion otherwise destined to gentilize itself more and more.
Only this theory is able to explain:
1) why the Talmudists know only of a Jesus killed by the Jews.
2) why the Talmudist answer was: "ok, we killed your Jesus, but we did so with any reason".
3) why some Jewish Christians introduced the idea that Christ wasn't killed while another man was killed in the his place. Pure APOLOGY to exorcize the dramatic reality.
4) why the Jewish Christians introduced a so naive use of the prophecies from the OT. Pure APOLOGY to exorcize the dramatic reality.
5) why Pilate was introduced: the gentiles had to share half of the responsability of the crime. Pure APOLOGY to exorcize the dramatic reality.
6) why John the Baptist was introduced: he had to remember that the death of Jesus by the Jews was along the same lines of the death of the OT prophets by Jewish hands. Pure APOLOGY to exorcize the dramatic reality.
7) why Herod was introduced: to explain the death of John.
So only a gentile Christian could, after the 70, invent a rumor that proclaimed the Jewish crime against the Christ.
And he did so probably as reaction against the aggressive return of the Judaizers in the Gentile communities of the Diaspora, a return provoked by the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, meaning a real re-judaizing of a religion otherwise destined to gentilize itself more and more.
Only this theory is able to explain:
1) why the Talmudists know only of a Jesus killed by the Jews.
2) why the Talmudist answer was: "ok, we killed your Jesus, but we did so with any reason".
3) why some Jewish Christians introduced the idea that Christ wasn't killed while another man was killed in the his place. Pure APOLOGY to exorcize the dramatic reality.
4) why the Jewish Christians introduced a so naive use of the prophecies from the OT. Pure APOLOGY to exorcize the dramatic reality.
5) why Pilate was introduced: the gentiles had to share half of the responsability of the crime. Pure APOLOGY to exorcize the dramatic reality.
6) why John the Baptist was introduced: he had to remember that the death of Jesus by the Jews was along the same lines of the death of the OT prophets by Jewish hands. Pure APOLOGY to exorcize the dramatic reality.
7) why Herod was introduced: to explain the death of John.