ra43b Josephus's problem with Judas seems not to

HAVE BEEN HIS "SOPHISTRY" OR HIS USE OF VIOLENCE, BUT RATHER WHAT HE DERISIVELY CALLS JUDAS'S "ROYAL ASPIRATIONS!"

What Flavius Josephus means is
that in fighting against the subjugation of the Jews and preparing the way for the establishment of G d's reign on earth, Jude, like his father Hezekiah before him, was claiming for himself the mantle of the messiah, the throne of King David! Ànd, like his father before him, Jude would pay the price
for his ambition?

Not long after he led the charge against the census,
Jude the Galilean was captured by Rome & killed! As retribution for the city's having given up its arms
to Jude's followers, the Romans marched to Sepphoris & burned it to the ground: the men were slaughtered,
the women & children auctioned off as slaves & more than 2000 rebels and sympathizers were crucified en masse!

A short time later, Herod Antipas arrived and immediately set to work transforming the flattened ruins of Sepphoris into
an extravagant royal city fit for a king? Yehoshua haNotsri 'the Nazarean' was likely born in the same year that Jude the Galilean - Judas the failed messiah, son of Ye-chezkel the failed messiah - rampaged through the countryside, burning with ZEAL! Hé would have been about 10 years old when the Romans captured Judas, crucified his followers, and destroyed Sepphoris?
When Antipas began to rebuild Sepphoris in earnest, Yesh is already quite a strong young man ready to work in his father's trade!

By then practically every artisan and day laborer in the province would have poured into Sepphoris to take part in what was the largest restoration project of the time, and one can be fairly certain that YESHUA & his brothers, who lived a short distance away in Natsereth, would have been among them?!! In fact, from the time he began his apprenticeship as TEKTON to the day he 'launched his ministry'
as an 'itenerant preacher & healer', Yeshu would have spent most of his life not in the tiny hamlet of Nazareth,
but in the much more cosmopolitan capital of Sepphoris:
like a peasant boy in
a big city
...

For all we know by now
many or most of the stories
he told then and there in public &/or private
to illustrate his 'discoveries' are
taken from his
own daily
life?!
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