RT Article
T1 Who Killed Jesus?: A Response to Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
JF Journal for the study of the historical Jesus
VO 23
IS 2/3
SP 163
OP 177
A1 Goldstein, Warren S.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1936098792
AB This is a review essay of Fernando Bermejo-Rubio’s book, They Suffered under Pontius Pilate: Jewish Anti-Roman Resistance (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2023). The starting point for the book is the crucifixion of Jesus at Golgotha with him at the center and two bandits crucified on both sides of him. Since crucifixion was the Roman punishment for rebellion, Bermejo-Rubio conjectures that Jesus was the leader of a rebellion and that he must have had some connection with the two bandits. Bermejo-Rubio does this to counteract the predominant narrative in the Gospels that it was the priests, elders, and the scribes who were responsible for Jesus’ execution, in other words, that the Jews killed Jesus. This article argues that Bermejo-Rubio absolves the responsibility of the Jewish priest class and that it was most likely both them and the Romans who were responsible for Jesus’ death.
K1 class analysis
K1 Messianism
K1 Rebellion
K1 Jewish priest class
K1 Romans
K1 Crucifixion
K1 Jesus
DO 10.1163/17455197-bja10053