jesus als kruising tussen broer konijn & calimero!


There is little doubt in my mind that we are here in the realm of folk literature, by which I do not mean a literature that is not of the Rabbis themselves, but rather a literature that exemplifies the close connections between the rabbinic class and the "folk."

In the typical fashion of the folk narrative, three miracles take place for out hero.

In the first, a male bee sits on the weft, the insertive, "male" thread, and a female bee on the warp, the receptive, "female" thread, and the Rabbi is thus able to determine the difference and concince the Romans that he is, indeed, a weaver.

In the next the miracle again convinces the Romans of the truth of a lie.
And similarly, in the third case. Here a Jew is prepared to denounce the Rabbi as having indeed freed his slave, which apparently in the world of the story was both illegal and a sure mark of adherence to Judaism
or Christianity, and through a highly improbable combination of circumstances and miracles, the denouncer is removed so far from the scene that he will never be heard of again.

The values of this "folk legend" are clear: any sort of deception is legitimate, as long as it gets you off the hook with the oppressor, because his rule is absolutely illegitimate. Our protagonist here is a veritable Brer Rabbi{t}.
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