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Revolution in Judaea Hardcover – January 1, 1980
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTaplinger Pub Co
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1980
- Dimensions6.75 x 1 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-10080086784X
- ISBN-13978-0800867843
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- Publisher : Taplinger Pub Co; First Edition (January 1, 1980)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 080086784X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0800867843
- Item Weight : 1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.75 x 1 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,548,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,760 in History of Judaism
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in Revolution in Judaea, Maccoby employs this technique to show that Jesus's mission was not to reveal himself as a man-god and preach about the kingdom of heavan, but rather was to reestablish the Davidic Kingdom on Earth and free the Jews from the vicious tyranny of the Romans.
If you are a Christian, this, and the rest of Maccoby's ouvre, will challenge your faith. If you are a Jew or other non-Christian, you will gain great insight into the historical Jesus's character and mission.
Some reviewers have complained that Maccoby has no proof for his conclusions, or that his work is all speculation. These are not fair assessments. His reasoning is deductive - if A, then B; if B, then C, etc. until he reaches his conclusions, which admittedly are startling and upsetting to many Christian readers. Even if you discount some of his conclusions, if you look at his work as a whole his conclusions are remarkably self-consistent and paint a very plausible - from the Jewish perspective - picture of Jesus and the birth of Christianity.
Revolution in Judea fits in neatly with the rest of Maccoby's books, which are all (or at least the several that I have read) interrelated. Revolution details Jesus's mission, and the political circumstances of Israel at the time. Jesus the Pharisee examines Jesus's teaching and concludes that he was not at all a rebel or revolutionary against Judaism but instead was an adherent of Judaism's mainline denomination, the Pharisees. The Sacred Executioner examines the ancient practice of literal human sacrifice and shows that Judaism developed as a rebellion to the awful practice, while Christianity embraced it as its mythological underpinning and forced the Jews to play the unwilling part of Jesus's sacred executioner. The Mythmaker examines the historical Paul and shows that he was not a Pharisee as he claimed, but instead was someone who grew up in the Hellenic tradition; and further, that his Christian teachings had almost nothing to do with Judaism, but instead are based on a fusion of Gosticism and the Mystery Cults of the near east. And finally, Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil examines the character of Judas and shows he was likely one of Jesus's brothers. It also shows that in the Christian tradition, Judas was the embodiment of the Jews and Jewish evil and explores the hellish consequences of the Judas tradition for the Jews, reaching the ultimate conclusion that the Holocaust was not an aberration but rather was the natural culmination of Christianity (or at least a certain strand of it) in the Age of Reason.
I would highly recommend Revolution to Jewish and other non-Christian readers. If you are a Christian whose faith is absolute and unshakable, you should probably skip this, since it will just make you irate. But if you are an intellectually adventurous Christian, I urge you - actually, I dare you - to read Revolution and Maccoby's other books mentioned above.
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