Transcript Media - Schools

James 1:2 “My brethren, count
it all joy when you fall into
various trials,..”
Leader – ideal “freedom at all
costs”
To a group - 1933 “no respectable
German shops here”
To the media Nov 8, 1937,
propaganda art exhibit entitled
“wandering Jew”
over 150,000 people attended in 3
days
To the schools -
Jews are not welcome here, & how
the Jew cheats
To the public 1935 - “no Jews
are welcome”
To the loss of social rights
Krakow ghetto German soldier
inspects Jewish papers
To acceptable public violence –
burning on kristallnacht (Nov
1938 night of broken glass)
October ’41 ration card 300
calories a day. Warsaw Ghetto
Gas Chamber at Flossenburg
James 1:2 “My brethren, count
it all joy when you fall into
various trials,..”
Philo leads embassy of Jews to Son of murdered
39-40
AD
THE
IDEAL
––
Germanus – “little
boots”
= Caligula
– (37-41) (loopy
“kiss me” “sweetie”) (brothel of senator’s wives –
mandatory
attendance-– Schools
horse senator – Killed by
Media
praetorian guard – replaced by uncle Claudius)
Caligula says they will always be under his control
-Christianity is a religio illicita: it is approved by the
state neither as a religious cult nor as a voluntary
association. Christians refuse to participate in state
cult, and are without exemption provided to Jews.
41- 46 AD – Public ask why? –
Social rights
• Great Famine in
Judea
• ~42-44 AD James,
the brother of John,
was beheaded (Acts
12.2).
• 45 The church in
Antioch sent famine
relief to the Christians
of Judea by the hands
of Saul and Barnabas
(Acts 11.29).
“Judaeos, impulsore Chresto,
assidue tumultuantes (Claudius)
Roma expulit.”
• 49 According to the
Roman historian
Suetonius (70-122),
Claudius "Since the
Jews constantly made
disturbances at the
instigation of
Chrestus expelled
them from Rome"
(Clau., xxv).
• Death of Helena, queen
mother of the kingdom of
Adiabene, a Jewish state
in northern
Mesopotamia. Adiabene
was frequently allied with
Persia in wars against
Rome.
• The emperor Claudius
promoted the cult of the
Great Mother (Magna
Mater) of the Gods and
her consort Attis. The
two had been introduced
into the Roman pantheon
around 200 B.C.
49 -50 AD
57-59 AD public jumps in
• 57-59 Paul
imprisoned in
Caesarea (Acts
23.33-26.32), under
Felix and Festus.
59 AD Nero orders murder of Mom
• 62 According to tradition,
James the Just, bishop of
Jerusalem, was killed in
the temple by an angry
mob, apparently struck in
the head with a
sledgehammer.
• Tradition has it
Bartholomew was
martyred in Kalyana, a
city state on the west
coast of India, near
modern-day
Bombay. Bartholomew
A third century legend has it that Simon Magus (Acts 8.9-24) and St. Peter had confrontations in Rome. Simon, wishing
to gain an advantage over Peter and to impress Claudius with his ability to fly, fell to his death from the top of the
Roman Forum. MEDIA GOES NUTS
64 Nero kicks his wife Poppaea to death
July, 64 1st Persecution of Christians, under Nero. When Rome burned for six days, Nero (54-68) blamed the
Christians. In 62, Nero had married Poppea Sabina, a proselyte to Judaism. Of Nero’s persecution, Tacitus wrote,
“First Nero had self-acknowledged Christians arrested. Then, on their information, large numbers of others were
condemned. ...Their deaths were made farcical. Dressed in wild animal’s skins, they were torn to pieces by dogs, or
crucified, or made into torches to be ignited after dark as substitutes for daylight.”
MEDIA
65 ANIHILATION
• The Pisonian
conspiracy against
Nero fails. The
philosopher Seneca
and others forced to
commit suicide. 66 ––
–––– Jewish revolt
begins. Vespasian
leads legions against
the Jews in Judaea.
•
66 Jewish rebellion began and war
between the Romans and Jews
ensued. Jerusalem was taken in 70
and destroyed, as was Herod’s
temple. Later, in the second century,
Justin Martyr would teach that this
destruction was the judgment of God
upon a nation that had rejected its
Messiah and failed to discern that,
under the new dispensation, the
temple sacrifices were abrogated.
•
67 –––––– The Jewish leader
Josephus surrenders to the Romans at
Jotapata. 68 –––––– Nero declared
public enemy by the Senate, commits
suicide, thereby ending the dynasty of
Augustus. Galba named Emperor.
• 67/68 St. Paul
martyred on the road
from Rome to
Ostia. Beheaded by
the sword. About this
same time St. Peter
also martyred,
crucified upside
down.
68 AD
• Nero Commits
Suicide Qualis artifex
pereo! -- What a loss I
shall be to the arts!
69 AD
• Otho and Vitellius
reign briefly.
Vespasian named
Emperor and founds
the Flavian dynasty.
during the second decade of the second
century. Pliny is a provincial governor and
writes to the emperor Trajan for
instructions on how to deal with
Christians. Trajan replies that “they are
not to be sought out nor were anonymous
denunciations to be acted on. But once
then have been identified and have
refused to stop their illicit cult, they are to
be executed. The problem seems to be
obstinacy more than the threat of a rival
cult.”