Edward Nydle The writers of the Gospels also seemed to deny the Roman culpability in the death of Yahshua. They seem to go out of their way to transfer guilt and responsibility from Rome and onto the Jews. Everything associated with his “trial” and execution is contrary to Jewish Law and custom, but is consistent with Roman practice. Blame was shifted from the offenders and transferred to the victims. By denying the crucifixion of thousands of Jews by the Romans, the Gospels convey the impression that he was the rare victim of this brutal form of execution carried out by the Romans. The Romans crucified Jewish prisoners by the thousands, therefore no Jew in the first century C.E. would have transformed the “cross ” into an idealized emblem of salvation any more than a twentieth century Jew would raise the swastika as a sign of his faith around which to rally. No blame is attached to Rome in his death. It seems that the writers of the Brit Chadasha indulged and pacified the Romans by projecting all the guilt for Yahshua’s death onto the vanquished foe-the Jews
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