Nabil Ziani

The Mishpat Iudicium Nabil Ziani

In just nine hours, Jesus has been arrested, tried and condemned. He was confronted successively with four judges. Anne and Caiaphas, the high priests, King Herod and the governor Pontius Pilate. The Jewish tribunal, the Mishpat, and that of the Romans, the Iudicium have sent the Son of God to Golgotha to be crucified. What is behind the questioning organized by each of His judges? What should we understand in the answers that Jesus gave them? The allusions, the symbols used and the revelations that the scriptures give us show the depth and the mysteries hidden in the account of the trials of Jesus, and the secrets hidden behind His crucifixion and resurrection. Three men investigate. All are Doctors of the Jewish Law: Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathea and Gamaliel. On their way to console the mother of Jesus, they dissct the recent events, and try to understand how a powerful teacher as Jesus did not defend Himself and let Himself to be cricified. Who really killed Jesus ? The Jews or the Romans ? At Lazarus' house, the three investigators meet with many people who knew Jesus: a few disciples, Simon of Cyrene, the Roman Centurion, and many others. This book is a historical fiction based on the Holy Scriptures, the jewish teachings of some rabbis and the secular records.