ra42b it was not the census itself that so enraged


JUDAS
AND HIS
FOLLOWERS; it was
the very notion of paying
any tax or tribute to Rome!

What more obvious SIGN was needed of the subservience of the Jews?

The tribute was particularly offensive as it implied that the land BELONGED TO ROME, NOT G D!

Indeed, that payment of tribute became, for these zealots, a test of piety & allegiance to G d? Simply put, if you thought it lawful
to pay tribute to Caesar, thèn yóu were a traitor ànd apostate: yóu desèrved to díe! Inadvertently helping Judas's cause was the bumbling high priest at the time, a Roman lackey named Joazar, who happily went along with Quirinius's census & encouraged his fellow Jews to do the same!

The collusion of the high priest was all the proof Judas & HÌS followers needed that the Temple itself had been defiled and MÙST be forcibly rescued from the sinful hands of the priestly aristocracy! As far as Judas's zealots were concerned, Joazar's acceptance of the census was his death warrant! The fate of the Jewish nation thus dìd depend on kìlling the high priest: zeal demanded it!

Just as the sons of MATTATHIAS "showed zeal for the law" by killing those Jews who sacrificed to any but G d (Maccabees 2:19-2cool!, just as Josiah, King of Judah, butchered every uncircumcised man in his land because of his "zeal for the Mighty One" (in 2 Baruch 66:5), so nòw MÙST thése zealots turn back the wrath of God upon Israel by ridding the land of all treasonous Jews like this corrupt high priest!

It is clear from the fact that the Romans removed the high priest Joazar from his post not long after he had encouraged the Jews to obey the census that Judas won the argument?

Flavius Josephus, who has very little positive to say about Judas the Galilean (he calls him a "sophist," a pejorative that to FJ signifies a troublemaker, a disturber of the peace, a deceiver of the young)
notes somewhat cryptically that Joazar was "overpowered" by the argument of the zealots.

History seems to repeat itself all the time?!!
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