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      31 month ago

      Supposedly Pilate pissed off the Jewish population repeatedly in his governorship by pushing Roman religion and minting coins with non-Jewish imagery, so I think we can safely say he wasn’t Jewish and was presumably Greco-Roman or Mithraic.

      https://coinsite.com/the-pontius-pilate-coinage/

      Not being a literal expert on the topic I’m not sure whether the imagery used implies one but not the other.

      Definitely not Jewish though!

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        21 month ago

        I have not read a Bible beyond Genesis, would appreciate an actual quote rather than just the citation.

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          I think he’s saying that because the original cult would have considered themselves Jewish the Pharisees (understood within the text to be the contemporary Jewish theocratic leadership but it’s a bit more complex in reality) arguing for his execution are basically the same thing as Christians.

          Which is silly.

          I assume he lost the context of the argument or wasn’t raised in… Any Abrahamic faith because wow.