The Trial and Death of Jesus

About this book

Haim Cohn a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel and a scholar of Jewish legal history offers a profound and respectful engagement of the Gospel narrative of the trail and death of Jesus. Using information we possess from various scholarly sources concerning the law and procedures (both Jewish and Roman) pertaining at the time Justice Cohn presents a searching forensic and historical analysis to create a legal political and religious context of the events as they may really have happened.