Judas Galiléen

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Judas Galiléen , or Judas of Galileo , or Judas de Gamala (according to Flavius Josèphe, it was actually originating in Gamala in Gaulanitide), was the chief of violent resistance to the tax census ordered by Quirinius in Judaea about the year 6. The revolt was crushed by the Romans.

These events are commented on by Flavius Josèphe in Guerres of the Jews (delivers 2, chapter 8, section 1 and chapter 17, section 8), and in Jewish Antiquités delivers 18.

In this last book, Josèphe indicates that Judas, in partnership with Sadok the Pharisien, founded the sect of the Zélotes; it calls it the “fourth sect” of the Judaïsme of the first century (the 3 first are the Sadducéens, the Pharisees and the Esséniens). Josèphe blames the Zealoies for the Grande Jewish revolt and the destruction of the temple of Hérode. They preached that God alone could be the lord of Israel and recommended later not to pay the tax in Rome more.

Judas leads the attack of the Roman garrison of Sepphoris, the capital of Galileo (7 km of Nazareth). Josèphe does not report the death of Judas, but it brings back (Antiquities 20.5.2 102) those of its sons Jacques and Simon, carried out on order of the procurator Tibère Alexandre towards 46.

Combination of the roles of this (or these?) Judas and of its (or them?) family seems to have been used as source with the speech of Gamaliel, member of the Sanhédrin, to have paid in Acts of the Apostles 5:37, in whom “Judas Galiléen” is presented like a Messianic example of missed chief.

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