John 18–19: Esther Redux? Scripture Coding in the Trial and Execution of Yeshua

Prologue Scene: A cat is playing a violin. A cow is flying in the sky, near the moon. A dog, looking on, is laughing. A plate with legs is running. What do these disparate unexpected occurrences have in common? Why would they form a “group”? If you cannot answer these questions, perhaps you need to ask a child. Probably any English-speaking child in either Great Britain or the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries would answer: “Why, it’s ‘Hey Diddle, Diddle,’ of course!” Many of the same children could then recite the entire rhyme by heart, and seve