20 - Jesus of Nazareth: Radical Rabbi
Episode description
Most of us are probably at least somewhat familiar with the story of Jesus of Nazareth. Born in Palestine at the beginning of the 1st century CE, Jesus would eventually lead a Jewish movement and be crucified by the Romans for the crime of sedition.
But, despite the obvious political overtones of such a tale, Jesus’s story is often decontextualized and therefore depoliticized. The fact is, Jesus of Nazareth was a guy with some pretty incendiary ideas for the time which put him in the crosshairs of expanding imperial Rome. For this, he was publicly executed by the state. And though few people would deny that this story is technically true, the image of Jesus as a Jewish activist rarely comes to mind in contemporary discussion of his life and times.
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