Crucify Him: A Lawyer Looks at the Trial of Jesus

by Dale M. Foreman

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 1990

Overview

A fascinating sight-seeing tour of all the facts known about the trial of Jesus of Nazareth. Crucify Him is a work of scholarship and faith for the layperson and lawyer alike, written over a period of nearly ten years by Dale Foreman, a Harvard trained trial attorney. Foreman is inspired by the belief that "a person can believe in Jesus and still be a rational, thinking person. It does not require a 'great leap of faith' across an abyss of ignorance and fear. The evidence is abundant; it only takes a step."

Contents

Top Highlights

“‘The Sanhedrin that executes more than one man in seven years is a slaughterhouse.’” (Page 114)

“No person charged with a crime involving life and death, or even corporal punishment, could be convicted, unless it was shown by competent testimony, that immediately before the commission of the crime the offender was warned that what he was about to do was a crime, and that a certain penalty was attached thereto.’” (Page 119)

“ According to Jewish law an actual execution must never be carried out before sunset of the following day.” (Page 120)

“The Sadducees were the aristocratic inheritors of the lucrative commercial temple trade. They sold doves and lambs for sacrifices—at profitable prices. They also exchanged the money of religious pilgrims and sold the half–shekel coins needed to pay the temple tax. They had a monopoly on this market and charged a four percent tax to exchange money. To Jesus they were thieves and profiteers.” (Page 42)

“But Pilate found nothing new, no great religious teachings, no political threat. With a few hundred gods in his vocabulary, Pilate must have thought this Jesus was nothing more than a good man, an idealist, a dreamer. As a broad–minded, sophisticated Roman, how could Pilate have found any fault with that?” (Page 41)

Product Details

• Title: Crucify Him: A Lawyer Looks at the Trial of Jesus
• Author: Dale M. Foreman
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 1990
• Logos Release Date: 2001
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Jesus Christ › Trial
• Resource ID: LLS:42.20.4
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T07:06:27Z