RLG323H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Beatitudes, Aramaic Language, Hadith
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Early depictions of jesus, is a jonah, a shepard, sun god helius. When one is claiming something like for our sins can"t prove historically but we can prove historically that he died. A regime of truth (a system that seems true) There is a different explanation of religious things by those within the religious groups rather than the explanation of those outside the religious group. Hebrew bible traditionally the torah was put together 90 ce. So it wasn"t a fixed hebrew at the time of jesus. Josephus jewish historian, showing himself as a good roman and jew, so not neutral histories. Midrashim rabbinic commentaries on the hebrew bible (ex. Mishnah/talmud written oral jewish law, references to jesus and daily life in first century palestine, put together 180 ce. They make the death of jesus a fullfilment of jewish prophecy apologetic, explaining why they had to kill jesus and are not to blame for something bad.