Investigating Jesus/Yeshua

This week, Round Table has Report No 3 from Palestine, a colony in the Roman Empire. Our (fictional) reporter there covered the execution of the man from Galilee, Yeshua and his followers’ meeting with him after he had died. The report today is a search and a probe to find out where this Galilean leader came from. What gave him his God consciousness, his class character and his compassion and courage? Was he born so? As our reporter put it: To understand Calvary, you must study Yeshua, and to study Yeshua you yourself must get in between God’s people and empire.{{more}}

THE BACKGROUND

OF YESHUA

Referring to his parents: “im du writing dem tel im fidu”

Reporting on his person: “Jiizas gruo op big. Im did brait an av not sens.”

On his social and spiritual formation: “God did api wid

wa im a du an di piipl dem did api tu.”

There is something autonomous about the background of this Yeshua whom they scandalised. He evidently did not drop down from the sky as a saviour, but grew up with his feet on the ground, his hand passing the nails, washing his face, feet and hands in the morning – no angels did that for him. Friends and family and synagogue/church were his routine; hurt and happiness shaped him; and deprivation and domination surrounded him. Obviously these things were integrated into his personality and his conversation with God, and God’s bonding with him in his consciousness. He would later tell his villagers these words from Hebrew prophets. “God’s Spirit has come to me, because he has chosen me to tell the good news to the poor…” His call is anti or trans imperial. As we continue to investigate Yeshua in our next report, I want to probe how he looks at “the poor,” God’s people, and the Empire’s agents.

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