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Judge Cohn's thesis, which has intrigued Christian Scriptural experts in Jerusalem, is contained in an article in the current issue of the Israel Law Review. Analyzing the Gospel accounts of the Passion in the light of known facts about legal customs and traditions of Jesus' time, Cohn...
Sacred as it was to Judaism, Jerusalem also attracted pagan conquerors. In 586 B.C., the city and its Temple were destroyed by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, who marched most of its inhabitants off to captivity -a tragedy that inspired the Psalmist to some of his most wistful lamentations. Thanks to...
Pilate, in which Christ tells the Roman procurator that power must crumble before truth. Pilate, a baffled autocrat who suffers from psychosomatic headaches, asks the same question that is recorded in the New Testament: "What is truth?"*His prisoner, who is pictured as a man shrewd in his simplicity, replies...
In Bethlehem of Judaea, most probably between 9 and 6 B.C., a son was born to a carpenter of Nazareth and his wife. For 20 centuries men have proclaimed this event to be the turning point in the history of the world-that God mysteriously became man in the lowly...
Lately, some Soviet judges and lawyers, disturbed by this one-sided setup, have stirred up a strenuous debate on the procurator's prerogatives. Writing in Izvestia last week, the Soviet Union's highest judge declared that a defendant should not be presumed guilty simply because the procurator says...