Caesar's Messiah.Caesar's Messiah Joseph Atwill Ulysses Press PO Box 3440, Berkeley CA 94703-3440 1569754578 $14.95 1-800-377-2542 www.ulyssespress.com In Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy To Invent Jesus, author Joseph Atwill (Jesuit trained, founder of the Roman Origins Institute Founded in 2004, the Origins Institute (OI) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization based in Hamilton, Ontario at McMaster University. The OI's aim is to promote research into several related themes that hope to solve fundamental questions about the origins of the in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , and co-worker with Robert Eisenman Robert H. Eisenman is an American archaeologist and Biblical scholar. He is currently Professor of Middle East Religions and Archaeology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Judeo-Christian Origins at California State University, Long Beach; and Visiting Senior Member of on the dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient leather and papyrus scrolls first discovered in 1947 in caves on the NW shore of the Dead Sea. Most of the documents were written or copied between the 1st cent. B.C. and the first half of the 1st cent. A.D. ) advances the controversial but intriguing theory that Jesus of the New Testament Gospels was basically an invention of a Roman emperor for his own imperial purposes. If correct, this would reveal a new understanding of a two-thousand year old series of events with respect to our understanding of Christian origins. Atwill closely compares the writings of first-century historian Flavius Josephus with the New Testament Gospels and comes to the conclusion that the Romans directed the writing of both the Gospels and Josephus' "War of the Jews". The purpose of the empire was to present Jesus as a "peaceful Messiah" who would serve as an alternative to more revolutionary leaders who were creating havoc in first-century Israel and threatening the suzerainty su·ze·rain·ty n. pl. su·ze·rain·ties The power or domain of a suzerain. Noun 1. suzerainty - the position or authority of a suzerain; "under the suzerainty of... of Rome. If Atwill's investigations are sound, it could well mean that the Jesus portrayed in the four Gospels was written not by Christians, but by Romans meaning to usurp u·surp v. u·surped, u·surp·ing, u·surps v.tr. 1. To seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force and without legal authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. 2. the Christian movement for their own political purposes. Caesar's Messiah is controversial, thought-provoking, challenging, and altogether fascinating reading. 
I think the Popes, all that succession of Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic shower of fishermen, have fished quite a lot of men out of the Gallilean Sea... I believe they have changed seas and are still fishing in East Timor, Vietnam and South America. They have netted the US long ago and India seems to be well-fished as well. Isn't it time now for Europeans, the ones who have -- as it were - got away, to take the necessary measures to make that succession of fishermen throw back their ill-gotten gains? Wouldn't that be great??<br><br>Seamus Breathnach<br><br>www.irish-criminology.com |
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