Jesus is accepted as the Messiah

The High Priest and the Sanhedrin accept Jesus as the Jewish Messiah c. 30AD. He is not crucified when he was and instead becomes the leader of the Jews of Roman Judea.

There are two ATLs. One is that the Romans still kill him and persecute the Jews (similar to Simon Bar Kochba) but there isn't the same split between Jesus's followers and those who reject him, as the overwhelming majority of Jews accept him.

The other is that Jesus travels away from Judea and gains non-Jewish followers. Perhaps he dies in Rome c. 50 AD with many Romans supporting him. Enormous differences from OTL are possible. One is that there are no later Roman-Jewish wars, and Jesus' message becomes the majority religion of the Roman Empire by about 150AD. What would that mean for later history?
 
The problem with any timeline in antiquity is that the sources we have are so limited that it's difficult to know a) what actually happened and b) the motives of the people involved and therefore how it could have gone differently.

We know so much more about the life of Adolf Hitler than the life of Jesus.

Exactly what is plausible for him to have done is so up in the air.
 
Well from my understanding to allow this, Jesus has the become the expected "political messiah" even though the outcome is a "suffering messiah". What is needed is to create a strong political expectation that gains the support or at least manages to convince a large proportion of the establishment. Fast forward a few years of this new situation. Jesus is seen as a military threat by Rome and is therefore from this fulfils the "suffering messiah" aspect, in effect completing both aspects. Say this inspires a Jewish victory and the eschaton occurs somehow. From these events, wealth male youth take on the mission of speeding the faith to all of which ends up expanding pre-existing and creating new diasporas in cities throughout the empire. Assuming in the time of the elite accepting Jesus and is death, he marries and has a family. For sake of argument by 150 CE the majority of large settlements are converted and so the empire's elite turns its gaze to Jerusalem with Jesus' Great, Great Grandson declared the new Emperor.
As noted earlier we do have a huge lack of required information and so the above may be bordering upon the ASB....
 
Well from my understanding to allow this, Jesus has the become the expected "political messiah" even though the outcome is a "suffering messiah". What is needed is to create a strong political expectation that gains the support or at least manages to convince a large proportion of the establishment. Fast forward a few years of this new situation. Jesus is seen as a military threat by Rome and is therefore from this fulfils the "suffering messiah" aspect, in effect completing both aspects. Say this inspires a Jewish victory and the eschaton occurs somehow. From these events, wealth male youth take on the mission of speeding the faith to all of which ends up expanding pre-existing and creating new diasporas in cities throughout the empire. Assuming in the time of the elite accepting Jesus and is death, he marries and has a family. For sake of argument by 150 CE the majority of large settlements are converted and so the empire's elite turns its gaze to Jerusalem with Jesus' Great, Great Grandson declared the new Emperor.
As noted earlier we do have a huge lack of required information and so the above may be bordering upon the ASB....

I don't think a Jewish victory is possible, at least not in longer term. However the rest sounds plausible.
 
I am not an expert on Judaism, but I have read somewhere arguments written by Jews that Jesus did not fulfill the criteria for being the Messiah. Of course, as other here writes, we do not know much about the historical Jesus. It is difficult to know for sure what he said and claimed about his own person. Did he for instance claim to be the son of Jahve or was this added by later Christians?
 
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