Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- The Zealots and Jesus
- The revolution theory from Reimarus to Brandon
- The date and character of Mark
- Some observations on Tendenzkritik
- Argumentum e silentio
- The Poor and the Zealots
- The opposition between Jesus and Judaism
- Judaeo-Christianity and the Jewish establishment, A.D. 33–66
- A.D. 70 in Christian reflection
- The trial of Jesus in the Acta Pilati
- Christ as brigand in ancient anti-Christian polemic
- Jesus as a political agent in a version of the Josippon
- The Feeding of the Multitude
- The coin of ‘Render unto Caesar …’ (A note on some aspects of Mark 12: 13–17; Matt. 22: 15–22; Luke 20:20–26)
- Render to Caesar
- The Temple tax
- ‘Not peace but a sword’: Matt. 10:34ff; Luke 12: 51ff
- The decision of the Supreme Court to put Jesus to death (John 11:47–57) in its context: tradition and redaction in the Gospel of John
- The ‘triumphal’ entry
- The two swords (Luke 22: 35–38)
- The titulus
- Romans 13
- Biblical criticism criticised: with reference to the Markan report of Jesus's examination before the Sanhedrin
- The political charge against Jesus (Luke 23: 2)
- The trial before Pilate
- ‘His witness is true’: A test of the Johannine claim
- Index of Authors
- Index of References
The titulus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- The Zealots and Jesus
- The revolution theory from Reimarus to Brandon
- The date and character of Mark
- Some observations on Tendenzkritik
- Argumentum e silentio
- The Poor and the Zealots
- The opposition between Jesus and Judaism
- Judaeo-Christianity and the Jewish establishment, A.D. 33–66
- A.D. 70 in Christian reflection
- The trial of Jesus in the Acta Pilati
- Christ as brigand in ancient anti-Christian polemic
- Jesus as a political agent in a version of the Josippon
- The Feeding of the Multitude
- The coin of ‘Render unto Caesar …’ (A note on some aspects of Mark 12: 13–17; Matt. 22: 15–22; Luke 20:20–26)
- Render to Caesar
- The Temple tax
- ‘Not peace but a sword’: Matt. 10:34ff; Luke 12: 51ff
- The decision of the Supreme Court to put Jesus to death (John 11:47–57) in its context: tradition and redaction in the Gospel of John
- The ‘triumphal’ entry
- The two swords (Luke 22: 35–38)
- The titulus
- Romans 13
- Biblical criticism criticised: with reference to the Markan report of Jesus's examination before the Sanhedrin
- The political charge against Jesus (Luke 23: 2)
- The trial before Pilate
- ‘His witness is true’: A test of the Johannine claim
- Index of Authors
- Index of References
Summary
Death penalties in the provinces used to be registered in the records of the Roman administrator and the execution was, when the circumstances demanded it, reported to Rome either by special message or as an item in the reports on major events which were submitted at regular intervals. These were the acts of official notification. Different from this were the means of informing the general public. The oldest sources, sources not later than the New Testament, mention a tabula which was to be carried by the condemned man (or by someone else walking in front of him) on his way to the place of execution, which indicated the αἰτíα. The fixing of a tablet with an inscription on the cross is less well testified; possibly because one mention of the tabula was considered sufficient by those who described a crucifixion. In any case, the showing of a tabula either on the last journey of the delinquent or on the spot where he was publicly put to death was not indispensable, not a constitutive part of the procedure, and therefore not laid down in detail. If an execution was meant to serve as a dreadful warning and if, in fact, elements of mockery were not absent from what even lawyers call Volksfesthinrichtungen, we cannot expect similar intentions to be foreign to the phrasing of a titulus. Even examples of a pedagogical nature are known. And the rhetorical element in the formulation is obvious.
It results from this that evidence of the first or second type, if its authenticity is indisputable, is superior to that of the third or fourth kind.
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- Jesus and the Politics of his Day , pp. 353 - 364Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984
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