reply to post by Logarock
Hey Loga -
Let us not forget the clear apologetic tone in the Greek canonical ‘council approved’ Gospels which circulated in the Roman Empire (in order to
make ‘converts’) ONLY AFTER the 1st Failed Jewish War against Rome (66-72 CE) –
The writers (or final editors) had to be very careful NOT to seem to retain any of the original seditionistic anti-Roman, anti-Gentile
Judaean-Rebellion tone of their originally armed and violent Messiah Hero if they were to be allowed to be ‘read in the churches’ without Rome
intervening – yet books like the so-called Book of Revelation still retain the clear image of a Militant Zionist-Warrior ‘I Hate The Gentiles’
Messiah—no wonder the book barely got into the canon in the west – it’s a wonder the violent ‘whips and cords’ Riot in the Court of the
Gentiles ever was retained – but that story was softened too.
We can clearly discern this post-Jewish War ‘apologetic’ attitude in the canonical Greek-Gospels towards the Kittim (i.e. the Romans) whenever the
story threatens to remind the audience of the Failed Jewish Revolt of 70 CE - – where various Aramaic sayings which had orally circulated coming
out of the mouth of an Aramaic speaking ‘Yehoshua-Messiah’ much toned-down in his original violent ‘jihadist’ political vitriol against the
Roman Occupation into which he was born –
In fact, many originally 'violence-leaning' Aramaic sayings in the earliest Nazorean Messianist oral tradition (before the Gospel WhiteWash Machine
took them over into Greek) were eerilly like the kind of specific war-against-the-gentiles vocabuilary of the so-called Dead Sea Scrolls’ War Scroll
at Qumran (1QM – i.e. Cave One Milkhama, or ‘War’) which likewise proclaims a Coming Kingdom of Heavan (i.e. of David) and likewise proclaimed
that the Times of the Kittim (i.e. the gentile-goyim occupiers of eretz Yisro’el) ‘is now over…’ (i.e. ‘the days of the kittim are
fulfilled…’)
We also can see the even in the gospel-whitewash-depictions of the Praefect of Judaea, the hand-washing Pontius Pilatus of the gospels which bear no
resemblance to actual history at all –
In fact the deliberately toned down make-over image of Pilate into a "Mr Nice Guy ‘harmless & friendly Pontius Pilate" that we read in the
"council Approved" Gospels is NOT the same picture we receive from contemporary sources who had access to actual eyewitnesses of this monster ‘in
real-life..’ :
Here is what Philo of Alexandria (who lived c. BC 20 to c. AD 50) and who actually saw the man in the flesh in his numerous pilgrimages to Jerusalem
and Caesarea in the 30s CE has to say about the actual personal-style of this Pontius Pilatus as he REALLY was, and not as some fanciful apologetic
‘soft on Rome’ canonical gospels portray him:
Philo's Legatio ad Gaium, (Legatio 299-305).
“Pontius Pilatus was a man by Nature of an inflexibly cruel and violently-stubborn disposition...and always deathly-afraid that an Embassy of
Iudaean subjects might some day lodge a legal-complaint to the Emperor at Rome listing his many years of Criminal Abuses – he lived in absolute
Terror as to what possible Retribution against him might result if any of his many Crimes against the Judaeans ever came out – which would pertain
not only to his own personal Conduct as Praefect, but also implicating his entire Administration --his constant taking of Bribes, his pre-emptively
brutal Squelching of Public-Protests, his vile habit of Stealing of large capital sums from the Sacred Temple Treasury [cf: the infamous ‘Jerusalem
Aqueduct’ Project] his inhuman Abuses of Power, his frequent Summary Executions of Political Prisoners without the Benefit of Trial, & scores of
examples of his vicious physical Assaults & willful savage behavior towards many of his subjects…’
--Philo's Legatio ad Gaium, (Legatio 299-305).
All this from a contemporay of Pilatus himself who saw things for himself & knew eyewitnesses to the man who actually lived in the flesh - unlike the
later ‘soft on Rome’ Gospels which circulated (in Greek !) some 50 years after the 'events' they purport to relate & who clearly saw the need to
soften Pilate's real-historical image - as well as that of R. Yehoshua bar Yosef the Galilean Nazir (Gk. Iesous) who deliberately armed his disciples
in 36 CE - with REAL swords that cut off REAL ears !! – Shock & Awe !! - during THE Insurrection (cf: ‘Mark’ chapter 15:4-7) on the 100th
anniversary of the invasion of the Roman General Pompey’s armies in 63 BCE
Reading Philo’s (admittedly Zionist) perspective it seems that the Historical Pointius Pilatus is NOT the type of person who would give the
‘historical Yehoshua bar Yosef’ anything more than a ‘summary execution without Trial’ - especially when he learned that he was another Armed
Galilean Daviddic Pretender as well !
Is this beginning to get clearer now? Or not ?!
