Who was Jesus Barabbas?

>>1683013

Probably the same figure as Jesus of Nazareth who was later split apart by the Gospel writers in order to manufacture a bizarre and completely uncorroborated set of circumstances (passover pardon, funny how there's no independent verification of a custom like this) to shift blame for the death of Jesus away from Rome and towards the Jews.

>>1683018
Are you basing this on personal conjecture, or some critical, academic argument?

>>1683022

I'm mostly basing it on Hyam Maccoby's work, if that's what you're asking. The actual cut and thrust supporting it would be far, far longer than I could cram into a 4chan post, but if you're interested, I would recommend Revolution in Judea. But that is his ultimate conclusion, that "Jesus Barrabas" and "Jesus of Nazareth" were the same dude, and that a lot of distortions and uncorroborated bits of local "tradition" in the Gospels tend to make the Pharisees/Judean society at large less sympathetic, and the Romans more sympathetic.

https://youtu.be/RwX_EpNR4CA

>>1683041
whoa nelly