Put Me down from the Cross Your Light Must Shine Again |
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Author:
| Pagan, Gaspar |
ISBN: | 978-0-615-86933-9 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | Gaspar (Edwin) Pagan Chevere
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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To penetrate the mystical life and the mystics in the history, we must be an Initiate in the arts. This is the only way to understand the masters, Mesias and Jews traditions. The Imposition of roman taxes change the peacefull leving of the Jews, and the live of Israelites. That in part was the fatal cause for the Jesus life and his intention to be king of Israel.This was a serious problem in the romano-herodiana era. While it had begun earlier, now it...
More DescriptionTo penetrate the mystical life and the mystics in the history, we must be an Initiate in the arts. This is the only way to understand the masters, Mesias and Jews traditions. The Imposition of roman taxes change the peacefull leving of the Jews, and the live of Israelites. That in part was the fatal cause for the Jesus life and his intention to be king of Israel.This was a serious problem in the romano-herodiana era. While it had begun earlier, now it worsened at an alarming rate, so many farmers were forced to sell their land, the most privileged perhaps could then rent this to another piece of land, either working as employees or laborers; but many others had to leave their lands and wander from one place to another. Those who could not pay the debts could be incarcerated until his family paid, either could be sold as slaves their children, his wife, although some chose to sell it themselves. The uprooting was a pretty common situation.The cities were the centers where is collecting taxes in kind. They lived only 8-10 percent of the population. Jerusalem and Caesarea Maritima in Judea, Sepphoris and Tiberias in Galilee, the largest and most central cities that existed were in the Herodian period. Then there were other smaller but that fulfilled a role administrative: Magdala, Capernaum, Cana... Of them depended on villages. In the cities were administrative and judicial centres, residences of the elite, the Temple (in the case of Jerusalem) and the palaces. The economic policy of the elite in the power was based on redistribution. And was, precisely, in the city, in the temple or the Palace, where was the collection of goods from the work of peasants, and where redistribution which was evidently made guided by the criteria of elite and for their well-being, while needs and the welfare of the vast majority of the population was not held on account, except when the famine were so strong that they threatened to put an end to the hand of work and therefore the future income of the elite. Against this form of Exchange that it was harmful to them, the farmers in the villages, they practiced reciprocity. Even the system of charity to serve the most poor people was sustained by the same villages or the synagogues with money from neighbors, while in the temple and in the coffers of the elite remained surplus.The Sanhedrin becomes the servant of roman empire, and change the Jews life in their own country.The word Apostol is the same as money collector, When Roman Empire rented the tax collection, and this is one of a common business. The disciple is a different word, means the one who believe in a cause, and follows it, like religious movements. The practice to travel to the different cities and territories to establish a place to preach and to collect taxes is a common one. However, the ten percent of taxes must be rendered to the romans administrators, that is the way Paul return to the synagogue to report the collections in the Gentiles territory. The practice used today in religious movements.