HIST-211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 65: Simon Bar Kokhba, Pharisees
23 Sep 2020
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The character of jesus in christianity"s sacred new testament is framed in terms of these varieties of judaism. He too is a reformer, but a rival to the pharisees: he has some disturbing things to say about the temple: the jerusalem temple. By the 1st century, jerusalem was already on its second temple. It was the centre of ritual life for many jews in jerusalem and across the roman near east: the temple"s fate. In 70 ce, a local rebellion would lead to roman generals destroying the second temple. In texts written around that time, like the gospel of mark, messiah-figures like jesus were said to have predicted this: messiah and christ. In texts like mark, jesus thus appears as the fulfillment of earlier jewish calls for a messiah or. The greek christos is merely a translation of this term: a strange messiah. There were many other candidates for messiah in ancient judaisms.
