Tag: Rome
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‘O little town of Bethlehem’
This is my favourite Christmas carol, though I’m no longer ‘traditionally’ religious, and believe Jesus was born in Nazareth, not Bethlehem. Why, some might ask, do I find this carol moving and meaningful? The reason is that its words and music symbolise and energise deep-seated archetypal contents in my psyche, which have profound meaning irrespective…
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Questions about Jesus (i)
It’s more or less certain that in Jerusalem, in 30 CE, at the time of the Jewish Passover Festival, a man called Jesus of Nazareth, by order of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, was executed by the excruciatingly painful and deliberately humiliating technique of crucifixion. Evidence supporting this is found in the writings of the…
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Two Curious Mysteries …
Most likely in 30 CE, Jesus of Nazareth, we’re told, staged a potentially politically and religiously provocative entry into Jerusalem, accompanied by a band of zealous, loud-voiced followers. He followed that up with an outrageous, table toppling, money scattering ‘demo’ in the Temple, and upped the ante with daily disputes with the religious intelligentsia in…
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