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Recouping Prestige. On legal grounds, Cohn insists that there is neither reason nor precedent behind the Gospel statements that the Sanhedrin examined Jesus on the night before his Crucifixion, condemned him, and turned him over to the Romans for a speedy trial and death. For one thing, it is most unlikely that the Sanhedrin would have undertaken any kind of fact-finding investigation on behalf of the hated bloody-handed Pontius Pilate. Just as improbable would have been a trial after sundown-especially on the eve of Passover, when most members of the Sanhedrin would have been busy with ritual...
Satan seizes the Master's manuscript and, in the Communist manner, proceeds to rewrite history. He allows the Biblical Pilate the satisfaction of killing Judas, and the further mercy of believing that the Crucifixion never took place at all. Thus does the Devil bless mankind by giving it a comfortable lie by which to live. The Master can forget his obsession and remains in peace with his beautiful mistress Margarita (who has given up a promising career as a witch for his sake). But Bulgakov makes clear his own belief: Pilate's guilt, an expedient cowardice that allows...
...member of one of the regiments involved, now sadly lost in amalgamation, I observe with regret that your commentator on "Richardson's Folly," or whatever the new celluloid crucifixion of the Light Brigade [Aug. 4] is to be entitled, is ignorant of the history of the brigade and its gallant-but monotonously misrepresented-charge. Let him remember that the "military caste system" Miss Woodham-Smith so coldly indicts produced, along with all the other "rank incompetents," such commanders as Marlborough, Wolfe, Wellington-and, indeed, Washington...
Pious Legend. For all the veneration that Jerusalem's holy places command, the sacredness of many of them is based more on pious legend than historical proof. The stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa-marking Christ's path to His crucifixion-begin near the site of the Temple in accordance with medieval tradition. Most Biblical scholars, nonetheless, now believe that Jesus' death march began on the other side of the Old City, near the Jaffa Gate. Many of the churches marking the shrines, moreover, have been rebuilt so often that they have tenuous claims...
...while threatening to excommunicate anyone who voted for Communist-backed candidates in Sicily's local elections, then was one of the leading conservative spokesmen within the Vatican Council, opposing the schema of religious liberty, liturgical reform, modern Biblical criticism, the declaration clearing the Jews of guilt for the Crucifixion; of a heart attack; in Palermo...