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To: Ilaine who wrote (34475)	4/12/1999 12:06:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi, Blue. Yes, you're right, Jesus's activities were part of the ferment in Jewish thinking of that period. Regarding the crucifixion, the Temple authorities were in bed with the Romans. There was great popular dissatisfaction with 'official' Temple practice. Jesus was evidently involved in protest activities threatening to the joint authority of the Temple and the Romans, threatening enough to lead to his execution. Jesus's message was not contrary to Jewish beliefs or to the Torah-- it was contrary to the interests of the Temple power elite. We don't know precisely why he was killed. We do know that he didn't like the way the power elite was administering the sacrifice business at the Temple, and made trouble over it, which greatly irritated the Roman overlords of the Temple establishment. It would clearly have been in the interest of the Temple establishment not to let the boat be rocked. I think I've covered your other points in my post to jbe. As far as dismissing Torah regulations that were inconsistent with his campaign is concerned, he rejected nothing that was in the written Torah, except in the matter of divorce, where he took a position to the right of Moses's; purity laws as they affected whom you could sit down to eat with (and proselytize); and Sabbath observance (same rationale). The 'oral Torah' was in the process of development in his time, and he was a participant in the discussions leading to its definition. In other words, his deviations had to do with restrictions that hampered his urgent Jewish mission to create a body of observant believers massive enough to induce God to bring the misery of the world to a quick end. They had nothing to do with an alternative religious worldview. N.