You started off with saying it was the initials of Caesar, which confused me into thinking that you meant the initials of the particular reigning Caesar, which led into the date marks on the coins, which you seem to have denied existed. Then you changed the meaning of the letters into ‘'Kratos Romaion” which is not the name of any Caesar and not the word Caesar, but is a modern suggestion. Then you denied that the letters were Kappa Rho, despite KP being what the uppercase Greek letters Kappa Rho look like.
Your latest version, that it is a contraction of the Greek word for Caesar, does sound rather likely, considering the Roman penchant for using contractions on their coins. For example, the denarius issued by Tiberius has TICAESAR on it. When Herod took over the minting of the Tyrian shekel and half-shekel around 18 BC, it is entirely possible that, being a Roman appointee, he decided or was told to put a reference to Caesar on the coin.
Two comments:
Once again, Aramaic speaking and mostly illiterate Jewish peasants would have no idea what it meant and would not be upset by it, as you claimed they would.
You clearly did not know for sure what KAP or KP meant until you found
this or something like it because of the changes you went through. Learning is a good thing of course but claiming knowledge you do not yet have is something else. I learned things along the way and I am not afraid to admit it.
It is possible that I misunderstood things you wrote and responded inappropriately, as you said I did. If you had pointed out some examples, I would have re-examined them. You seemed to have had specific things in mind but now you don’t, so let it be.
As I have said and demonstrated a number of times, just removing the supernatural from the Gospels is insufficient to decide what did or did not really happen. John in particular created a great deal of new material to serve his purpose of elevating Jesus to demi-god status, something Paul put forward but got de-emphasized along the way in the Synoptic Gospels. One can see links back to Paul in various places in John.
I presume you are talking about John 7-8 when Jesus went to Jerusalem for Tabernacles, this being the only place where Jesus goes to the temple three times. I see Jesus teaching. I see People uncertain about Jesus being the Messiah because he came from Galilee, not Bethlehem. I see Jesus teaching again and debating with the Pharisees. I see no demonstration or picketing, just a lot of talking. I see nothing whatsoever about the priesthood. But you are still hung up on equating the Pharisees with the priests even though having been shown wrong on this point numerous times.
If you think that there is in fact some indication of demonstration and picketing and speaking against the priesthood, quote specific chapter and verse and explain how you come to your conclusion.
