| | Biblical Theology Bulletin: A Jewish Perspective of Jesus. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The Talmud, as just noted, makes the Sanhedrin solely responsible for the trial and execution of Jesus as it does, incidentally, for the trial and execution of Bar Kokhba (Sanhedrin 93b). |
 | | It is less painful to contemplate a Jesus, a Bar Kokhba or any other Jew punished under humane Israelite law than his abandonment to the cruel caprice of uncircumcised Rome. |
 | | To reduce it to its barest outline, once the break between Judaism and Hellenistic Christianity was complete (,Jewish Christians such as Ebionites, did not break with Judaism although the ties were sorely tested during the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132-135 CE) then the two groups began to adopt the "You and Us" terminology. |
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