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I 'm thinking about the episode of Jesus Bar-abbas and the reasons of his presence in Mcn. Precisely, it would seem apparently contradictory the presence, in Mcn, of a episode derived midrashically from Leviticus 16 along the lines ''first goat''=Jesus Christ, ''second goat'' (driven out the city) =...

But is just true that: QUOTE: Allegorically associating the death of Jesus with fulfillment of the Law and an atonement motif is more at home in a Jewish Christian or proto-orthodox environment. Maybe the episode of Barabbas and Cyrenaic, if linked under the common theme of atonement motif, include ...