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Anti-Jewish Doctrines in 'John'
Prof. Raymond E. Brown of St. lated in John: "Pilate remains
Mary's Seminary of Baltimore convinced that Jesus is harmless,
adds the scholarly annotations on but 'the-Jews' are forcing his hand
"The Gospel According to John . . . Pilate yields to 'the Jews'
XIII-XXI" in the newest of the and sets the scene for passing
series of Anchor Bibles published judgment. Seated on the judgment
by Doubkday.
seat, with a final gesture of defi-
•
As translator, viith an important ance and perhaps still with a half-
introduction and extensive anno- hearted hope he can obtain clem-
tations,' Father Brown contributes ency, Pilate shows Jesus to `the
his scholarship, albeit in the Cath- Jews' as their king. When they
olic tradition, with Volume 29A of persist in demanding crucifixion,
Pilate takes his revenge by hum-
the Anchor library.
"The Last Discourse and the bling their nationalistic spirit. In
Passion, the Death and Resurrec- their quest to have Jesus condemn-
tion of esus" represents the theme ed, 'the Jews' have shown a touch-
of the chapters from John in this ing loyalty to the emperor--does
this mean that they have given up
new work.
hope in the expected king?
While Prof. Brown takes into ac- their
No
price is too great to pay in the
count "the classical Christian po- world's
struggle against the Truth:
sition that the Jewish authorities 'the Jews'
utter the fateful words:
were the prime movers in Jesus' 'We
have no king other than the
arrest, trial and sentencing," he emperor.'
The real trial is over,
also makes reference to the "mod- for in the presence
of Jesus 'the
ification" of this view which "calls ;Jews' have judged themselves;
into question the formal - character 'they have spoken their own sen-
of the Sanhedrin trial and suggests tence."
that no Jewish sentence on Jesus
The sentence is the pronounced
was actually passed. Although the
Jewish authorities were deeply in- one in theological history: imbed-
volved, all the main legal formali- ded, as it becomes apparent, in the
ties were carried out by the Ro- prejudice of John the Baptist. The
mans. Today many Christian analysis as given by Father Brown
scholars adopt a form of this tells how the hatred was ferment-
ed in John, as it was in Matthew,
view."
how the New Testament does
Then Father Brown takes into and
serve as a source of inerasable
account the interpretations and bias
the Jews. There re-
the historical analyses of men mains against
the continuing need to press
like Prof. Solomon Zeitlin and upon
the
unknowing
the views of
others and states in presenting Zeitlin and others so that
the poi-
a third view: "The Romans were sons from some of the Gospels
the prime movers. They had may not inundate the earth end-
heard of Jesus as a possible lessly. —P.S.
troublemaker and forced Jewish
cooperation. Many Jewish schol-
ars have suggested that only a Police Protection Pledged
small clique within the Sanhe- for Brooklyn Worshipers
drin (the adherents of the high
NEW YORK (JTA) — Sebas-
Driest or the Saddueean leaders,
but not the Pharisees) were in- tian Leone, Brooklyn borough pres-
ident,
said he had been assured by
volved in the apprehension and
police commissioner's office
investigation of Jesus. P. Winter the
that
adequate
police protection
thinks that the Sanhedrin reluc-
tantly acceded to Roman pres- would be provided for the syna-
sure as a gesture of political gogues and other religious insti-
expediency. but there was no tutions in the borough, one of
real religious antagonism to which was attacked during Yom
Jesus. A. Buechler (1902) sug- Kippur services.
A number of windows of the
gests that there were two San-
hedri•s, one involved with religi- Math Sochochow synagogue were
ous matters, the other with civil broken and six congregants in-
matters (also. with variations, jured when Puerto Rican youths
Lauterhach, Abrahams, Zeldin). clashed with some of the worship-
It is theorised that the religious ers. Detectives of the local pre-
Sanhedrin, the real governing cinct have been investigating the
body of Judaism, had nothing to melee.
do with Jesus' death, but only
The borough president, denounc-
the political Sanhedrin which ing the "disgraceful hoodlumism,"
was a Roman rubber stamp."
called on the new police commis-
Zeitlin's "Who Crucified Jesus?" sioner, Patrick Murphy, on the
is a much more thorough account matter. He said he had sought as-
of the trial and the second Sanhe- surance that police would not be
drin that was the tool of the Ro- diverted from Brooklyn to Man-
mans, and it would have been so hattan because of the large num-
much more enlightening if Prof. ber of foreign dignitaries coming
Brown had dealt more extensively here to mark the 25th anniversary
with that view. While he makes of the United Nations.
another reference to Zeitlin, it is
in an -entirely different light.
Father Brown does present a
fourth view on the death of Jesus,
namely: "No Jewish authorities
were involved in any way, not even
as a tool of the Romans. All the
references to them or to the San-
hedrin in the New Testament rep-
resent an apologetic falsification
of history."
Father Brown does emphasise
that "the Roman governor had the
Power of capital punishment, or
that he may have given the San-
hedrin this power for specific of-
fenses, especially of a religious na-
ture." He then poses the question
whether the Sanhedrin had general
competence to execute prisoners,
The Dunlop
and the instances be points to
would seem to prejudice the case
against those who contend that
there was no Jewish guilt in Jesus'
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elusion that the Jews probably
migrated to escape the Romans
after the Jewish defeats in 70 and
135 CE.
He said that other findings in-
dicating millings earlier than Co-
lumbus' must be reassessed.
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Point about Roman soldiers being
shown in John as moeldng Jesus.
Prol. Brown has another refer-
ence to -Jewish involvement as re-
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claim to fame has been challenged
— by a group of Jews who fled
the Romans 1,000 years earlier.
Prof. Cyrus H. Gordon, professor
of Mediterranean studies at Bran-
deis University, told an archeolo-
gical society meeting that his evi-
dence is an inscription found on a
stone in a burial mound in Tennes-
see in 1885. When the inscription
was photographed and published
by the Smithsonian Institution in
1894, it was printed upside down
and its significance went unnoticed,
said Dr. Gordon. The stone is at
the Smithsonian.
While studying the inscrip-
tion, said Prof. Gordon, he dis-
covered that its five letters are
in the writing style of Canaan,
the Israelites' promised land.
The fifth letter, he said, cor-
responds to the style of writing
found on Hebrew coins of the
Roman period. He translated
the letters to read "for the land
of Judah."
Dr. Gordon has come to the con-
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