Judas Brief: Who Really Killed Jesus?

by Gary Greenberg

Book Overview

Based on detailed historical evidence and logical analysis of inconsistencies within the gospel accounts of the events leading up to the arrest and execution of Jesus, Greenberg argues that Judas... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826489990
• ISBN13: 9780826489999
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"

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The Judas brief: Who really killed Jesus

WHO REALLY KILLED JESUS Book review By Andre Austin Author, Gary Greenberg has released a brand new book, The Judas Brief: Who really killed Jesus. His main thesis is an attempt to rightfully indict and exeronate the murders of the man you know as Jesus Christ. He uses all of his lawyer verbal and writing skills coupled with digging deep through the historical records to offer an alternative ethological assumption of the murder of Jesus. Gary cuts through the chase, hyperbole and all of the embellishment handed down to us all the zealous followers of Jesus. So just who killed Jesus? We are led down a road to believe that Pilate with the assistance of Jewish priest forced Pilate to crucified Jesus. However, all that we know about the cruel Pilate was that only another individual with similar or equal power or the Emperor could make Pilate budge on issues dealing with political and military operations within his jurisdiction. According to the Bible "Herod and Pontius Pilate met together...to conspire against your holy servant Jesus" (Acts 4:27). Herod was called a fox a possible allusion to foxes who wore sheep clothing because by birth he was a Jew but was Roman in all of his ways. So if Herod conspired to kill Jesus just what did he do? When you conspire it's a joint effort of two or more person to achieve a criminal or immoral goal. The goal was killing Jesus. The trumped up charges was he claimed to be Son of God and or Son of Man. Theses terminologies meant King and ultimately treason to Herod and Pilate; and we are lead wrongfully to believe it meant blaspheme to Caiaphas, the Sadducee priest. For some reason or another the apocrypha book the Gopel of Peter (GOP) didn't make it in the official canon of the New Testament, however it's useful because it continues the dialogue of fully explaining Herod's conspiracy to kill Jesus. According to the GOP Herod was the one who gave the order for the execution. "Herod the king commandeth that the lord (Jesus) be taken saying to them (Pilate), what things soever I commanded you to do unto him (Jesus), do" (GOP). This settles it for me. Like father like son Herod the great attempted to kill Jesus, (with no massive baby killing was the embellishment), in his infancy and his son Herod Antipas finally was able to get him as an adult. In the New Testament Jesus had taunted Herod to try to kill him out of his jurisdiction. Herod beheaded John the Baptist which he thought Jesus was a reincarnation of. As I read The Judas Brief, I began to see the real picture. Judas didn't betray Jesus the correct term was "hand over" temporary for house arrest at the Sadducee priest house. It is very unclear in the gospels just what Judas Iscariot's betrayal consisted. Matthew says that Judas' payment and death were prophesied by Jeremiah, and then he quotes Zecharian 11:12-13 as proof! According to Matthew 26:15, the chief priests "weighed out thirty pieces of silver" to give to Judas. There are two things wrong wit