>>528906>Realistically something like this should have been planned by the governer of Syria, the local Judaean prefect or one of a series of progressively lower ranking Roman public officials. Judea was a province of only marginal strategic importance, so it would make more sense for local officials to foster a jewish apocalyptic cult on their own, independent of imperial oversight.Only of marginal strategic importance even though it had just as much access to the sea as Syria had, and was connected directly to North Africa by the isthmus of suez, which was the only available land crossing between asia minor and north africa? And if judea was only of minor strategic importance, why the long and hard fought guerrilla war against the judeans, culminating in first, the destruction of jerusalem, and later the siege of masada, and the capture/death/enslavement of jews. And what's strangest of all, is that one of the earliest known "Christian" cemeteries were Judean slaves of the Flavians. Now did the Flavians really capture "Christians" or was "Christianity" the new form of invented slave morality forced onto defeated Jews after the destruction of Jerusalem? One that warped the tradition of a military messiah into the "peaceful martyr" messiah who told his people to "render unto caesar" and "obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling" and to expect no reward until you die? A mighty convenient moral code to force onto slaves, no? And what of Judas's last name Iscariot? One of the most infamous band of Jewish Nationalist/Monarchist rebels fighting the roman empire at the time was led by a man named Judas, and that band of rebels were called the Sicarii?