The Crucifixion Viewed from a Jewish Standpoint: A Lecture Delivered by Invitation Before the Chicago Institute for Morals, Religion and Letters - Couverture souple
Synopsis
E. G. Hirsch's thought-provoking work argues that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was a result of the Roman order occupying Judea, rather than the established Jewish temple and society of Judea.
Informed by scholarly research of Israel in the 1st century AD, together with a close reading of the Biblical canon, Hirsch presents a persuasive and convincing argument as to who was culpable for Jesus' death. We hear of how the Jewish courts lost the right to pronounce a death penalty, as the Roman occupiers of Judea assumed authority in matters of crime and punishment.
Notably, Hirsch points out that the phenomena of crucifying a person - tying and nailing them to a cross of wood, before leaving them exposed to the elements to die - had no founding in Jewish culture. Indeed there was no word for it; the Jews of the time only had a generic term denoting hanging, which was a commoner and less brutal form of execution.
Crucifixion by contrast was a grisly innovation of Rome, reserved for its worst criminals and traitors; a horrific and very visible form of deterrent to those who might work against the Roman state. Hirsch concludes by saying that the Jewish people did not hang Jesus. The pot estas gladii - the power over life and death - lay firmly with the Romans.
Emil Gustav Hirsch was a prominent rabbi who lived in the United States for most of his life. Advocating for the Reform movement of Judaism, he published several essays and works, offering learned commentaries on religious matters.
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