The Case against Christ

A Critique of the Prosecution of Jesus

George G. R. Dekle Sr. (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

350 Seiten

2011 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-3194-9 (ISBN)

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Some two thousand years ago, in a small province of the Roman Empire, an obscure Roman governor ordered the execution of a peasant leader. It went virtually unnoticed at the time. No official report of the event has survived, and we would have no memory at all of it except for the efforts of a handful of followers of the condemned man. Those followers who kept that memory alive changed the course of history, and the results of their efforts continue to reverberate to this day.Conventional interpretation says that the execution of Jesus of Nazareth came on the heels of a series illegal trials before a number of different tribunals, and at the culmination of that series of trials a moral coward by the name of Pontius Pilate ordered Jesus' execution despite being satisfied that he was innocent. Revisionist interpretation says that there was no trial at all, that Pilate simply executed Jesus because he was a nuisance, and that Jesus' followers invented the story of his execution as a means of shifting the blame from the Roman government to a group of people whom they despised – the Jews.Are the Gospels good history or bad propaganda? Does a fair reading of the Gospel accounts support either the conventional or the revisionist interpretation of the trial of Jesus? Who, if anyone, should shoulder the blame for the crucifixion of Jesus? The Case against Christ seeks to answer these questions by treating the matter as a forensic death investigation and answering the questions as they might be answered by a prosecutor attempting to determine who should be held criminally responsible for the death of Jesus.

George R. Dekle, Sr., is a retired prosecutor and a legal skills professor at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law in Gainesville, Florida, USA. During his 30 year career as an Assistant State Attorney, he investigated and prosecuted hundreds of homicide cases. In 1986, Dekle received the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association's Gene Barry Memorial Award as the outstanding prosecutor in Florida, and upon his retirement in 2005, he received the Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in continuing legal education. While serving at the Levin College of Law, Dekle has authored two books, Prosecution Principles: A Clinical Handbook and The Last Murder: The Investigation, Prosecution, and Execution of Ted Bundy, and co-authored another, Cross Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies, and Technique.

Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4438-3194-8 / 1443831948
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-3194-9 / 9781443831949
Zustand	Neuware