
John Dominic Crossan: Render Unto Caesar
Homebrewed Christianity
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The Role of Jewish Eschatology in Non-Violent Resistance
In the what would the role of Jewish apocalyptic eschatology how does it ultimately kind of fund or inspire make possible the emergence of a kind of non-violent resistance? Well, that'd be again compare Josephus. Josephus says quite openly that the vespation is the Messiah. He says we've been expecting all the time that somebody from our land would come to rule the world That's his language. At lo and behold there was a vespation because he was the player to be emperor in our land. It's a horrible statement. You can forgive Josephus for a lot of stuff and not for that one. So that's really the atmosphere behind it's messianic
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