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Even Jost, the Jewish historian, calls it a murder; but he does not believe that there was an actual trial; and in this Edersheim agrees with him. In allusion to His claim to be the Messianic Prophet. The Roman soldiers, on the other hand, ridiculed His claim to be a King.
On Early Christianity: The Lives of Jesus, by NEANDER, WEISS, Farrar, Edersheim, Andrews. Neander's Planting and Training of the Church. Works on the Life of St. Paul, by CONYBEARE AND HOWSON, by Lewins, by Farrar. Fisher's The Beginnings of Christianity; Pressense, Early Days of Christianity.
Edersheim remarks, "We can scarcely wonder that such Jews as Josephus and Philo, and such heathens as Pliny, were attracted by such an unworldly and lofty sect." Some writers maintain that they were also worshipers of the sun, and hence that their origin is to be traced to Persian sources.
The material used is enormous, but is not always treated with due criticism, and the book should be read with the fact in mind that most of the rabbinic writings date from several centuries after Christ. Dr. Edersheim follows the gospel story in detail; his book is, therefore, a commentary as well as a biography. The book is pretentious and learned.
As, however, the Jews would have objected to this, Edersheim argues but not convincingly that there must have been at least a slight covering. Süskind, Passionsschule, in loc. In the last chapter we saw the impressions made by the crucifixion on the different groups round the cross.
Nor is history to be found only in the book called history. If you want to know the life of the ancients, as you know the life of your own community, read Josephus. Do you want a glimpse of early apostolic times, read "The Life and Times of Jesus," by Edersheim.
Edersheim has called them the nationalist party. In matters belonging strictly to the religious life they followed the Pharisees, only holding a more material conception of the hope of Israel. Another development in Jewish religious life carried separatist doctrines to the extreme. Its representatives were called Essenes, though what the significance of the name was is no longer clear.
Edersheim evidently refers to the same authority in a footnote. On the whole this regulation against the killing of vermin must have been very irksome, and if the fleas were aware of it, they and the Jews must have had a lively time on the Sabbath. We cannot ascertain whether the prohibition extended to scratching.
Farrar often interprets most helpfully the essence of an incident, and Geikie furnishes a mass of illustrative material from rabbinic sources, though with less criticism than even Edersheim has used. Neither of these works, however, deals with the fundamental problems of the composition of the gospels, nor are they satisfactory on other perplexing questions, for example, the miraculous birth.
"O Cress, what hast thou done?" "Go to bed!" was the most lucid explanation which all the eager entreaties of Belasez could obtain from her brother. The feminine singular of the Hebrew word rendered, in the A.V., "creeping things." Dr Edersheim tells us that this flattering term is commonly employed in speaking of a Gentile.
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