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From: eggertj@moses.atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Re: DID HE REALLY RISE???
Message-ID: <Apr.13.00.08.56.1993.28439@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 93 04:08:57 GMT
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In article <Apr.12.03.44.39.1993.18842@athos.rutgers.edu> reedr@cgsvax.claremont.edu writes:
>   The real problem was
>   that Christians were pacifist and preached there was only one god.  When the
>   state operates by a system of divinitation of the emperor -  monotheism 
>   becomes a capital offense.  The Jews were able to get exemption from this,
>   and were also not evangelistic.

I disagree with your claim that Jews were not evangelistic (except in
the narrow sense of the word).  Jewish proselytism was widespread.
There are numerous accounts of Jewish proselytism, both in the New
Testament and in Roman and Greek documents of the day.
--
=Jim  eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)
