The Trial of Jesus: Illustrated from Talmud and Roman Law
Overview
Surveying the Roman and Jewish trials of Jesus, Septimus Buss provides insight into the legal systems that delivered Jesus to the cross. Buss digs into the legal codes of both Rome and the Mishna, answering questions about the legality and justice of the two systems. Buss also provides commentary on the four gospels account of the trials, chronologically arranged.
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“These high prerogatives were considerably reduced by Herod. Before he became king, he had been cited to appear before the Sanhedrin on a charge of illegal execution or murder (Josephus, Antiq. xiv. 9, 2–5). Herod never forgot the insult: and when he came to the throne he took a savage revenge, by the slaughter of the Sanhedrists. During the rest of his life he never allowed them to recover their power; they became a mere shadow, without a vestige of real authority.” (Page 35)
“Members were required to be modest and humble, learned in the Law, and acquainted with foreign languages, popular with their fellow-men, tall and of dignified bearing, of a competent age, and fathers of children, and even initiated into the mysteries of Egyptian magic.” (Pages 25–26)
“The Great Sanhedrin consisted of seventy-one, and the small of twenty-three. Whence do we deduce that the Great Council must be seventy-one? From (Numb. 11:16) ‘Gather unto Me seventy men;’ and add Moses, who was the head of them—hence seventy-one.” (Page 32)
“figurative language; the thanaim, or learned doctors of the law, who” (Page 88)
- Title: The Trial of Jesus: Illustrated from Talmud and Roman Law
- Author: Septimus Buss
- Publishers: SPCK, Edwin S. Gorham
- Print Publication Date: 1906
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jesus Christ › Trials, litigation, etc; Jesus Christ
- Resource ID: LLS:TRLJSSLLSTRMNLW
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T15:55:46Z
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David Anfinrud
12/15/2020
I found that this book was very interesting looking at what the laws were at the Time of Christ. How the judicial system of the Temple was corrupted and violated the Rights of Jesus according to Mosiac Law and current verbal laws that were passed down verbally but never written down until hundreds of years later. Both the Talmud laws and Roman laws to protect an innocent person from being falsly accused were not followed. IT was more a political trial than a real trial. Most of the rules the laws were violated. Interesting trials can only take place during daylight Jesus trial was done at night.
