Editor says, would Jesus have been crucified under Cleopatra and Antony? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).

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Jared Myers commented on 2011-12-21 03:11:22 ~ Depending on who you ask, He DID take Rome. Some folks think His HQ is still there. :-D

Tom B commented on 2011-12-21 04:55:52 ~ Hmm if the Eastern Empire was centered on Alexandria TTL wouldn't it make more sense for Yeshua to go there to establish his Kingdom of Heaven esp. as it had a large Jewish community at the time? Thanks, agreed changes made Tom - Ed.

Eric Oppen commented on 2011-12-21 05:24:24 ~ OTL's Roman Empire did leave local religions pretty much alone. About the only things they were down on were anti-Roman agitation and human sacrifice---anything else pretty much went. And up to the outbreak of the Jewish Rebellion the Roman government paid for daily sacrifices to the God of Israel in the name of the Senate and the People of Rome, to ensure the God of Israel's favor for them. The Rebellion started because of Greek-vs.-Jewish rioting.

Eric Lipps commented on 2011-12-21 17:43:06 ~ One of the few things we know for sure about Jesus' life (the Gospels differ significantly on many details of it) is that he was NOT born on Dec. 25, 754 AUC (1AD). Herod is supposed to have ordered the death of Jesus, but Herod died in what we now call 4 B.C. (750 AUC). Moreover, it's unlikely that Jesus was born in midwinter, if shepherds were herding their flocks outdoors at the time. Hot as it can get in Palestine during the day even in December, it gets DAMN cold at night. Moreover, attempts to locate references to anything seen in the sky which could have served as the Star of Bethlehem turn up nothing later than 7 B.C., unless, as some authors have argued, the "star" wasn't a single object at all but some rare planetary conjunction which the astrologer "wise men" would have noticed even though most people wouldn't.

Stan Brin commented on 2011-12-21 20:33:35 ~ The Jewish War was not inevitable. If the Senate hadn't seen Judea (there was no "Palestine" -- the term hadn't been invented yet) as a cash cow, and if it hadn't assigned such incredibly greedy and ruthless governors, the country would have gone on much as it had during Persian and Alexandrian times. It should be remembered that Judaism was a proselytizing religion at the time. (Paul was a proselyte, but was unlikely to have been formally converted -- he knew no Hebrew.) What if instead of Pauline Christianity, a traditionally Jewish sect took over Rome, either Peter's Jesus Movement (known to Christians, inaccurately, as the "Apostolic Church) or mainstream Pharisees.

Jeff Provine commented on 2011-12-23 23:13:36 ~ We might see the Coptic Church as the major basis of world Christendom. There'd be a few differences, perhaps mostly stylistic, but if Cleopatra continued Egyptian power, we might see more problems of forced integration rather than bids for extinction as per Nero and other Caesars.