Shambhuji,
Sorry for the late reply.
The narrative of Cannibal Mary is included in The Jewish turncoat Josephus' War of the Jews. War of the Jews was actually included with the four canonical gospels as a part of the NT during the entire 1st millenium AD and was taken out by the church for unknown reasons. This confirms that any integrated reading of War with the canonical gospels is historically plausible.
In War, Josephus states that Mary (which means rebellious woman and signifies The Defeated Jews) is caught in the Siege of Jerusalem by Titus. She resorts to roasting and cannibalizing her son, which she offers to other suffering Jews. She is said to belong to the âhouse of hyssopâ (beth-ezob). Hyssop is a plant associated with the Passover feast and her manner of cannibalizing the son is in accord with jewish dietary laws regarding the preparation of a Passover sacrifice of a lamb. So basically Josephus has described a human Passover lamb which is cannibalized by its mother, Mary (the rebellious Jews)
Now Jeebus also has long been recognized as an example of a human Passover sacrifice by the God the father. But Atwill notices that jeebus is dabbed in sour wine with a branch of Hyssop when on the crucifixion and his limbs are not broken (in accordance with jewish dietary laws). What more, Jeebus offers his disciples his body to be cannibalized in a feast preceding the crucifixion. Essentially, atwill claims, this narrative had ended up in getting the rebellious jews to feast on their own messiah, in lieu of the passover lamb. But the irony goes further and this is what links the canonical gospels with their historical mirror, War of the Jews. In atwillâs own words:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And notice that when viewed from such a perspective the passage would certainly be seen as comical, the irony being self-evident of a Messiah who instructs his followers to symbolically "eat of my flesh" actually having his flesh eaten by his mother.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I will post the full except from CM.
Sorry for the late reply.
The narrative of Cannibal Mary is included in The Jewish turncoat Josephus' War of the Jews. War of the Jews was actually included with the four canonical gospels as a part of the NT during the entire 1st millenium AD and was taken out by the church for unknown reasons. This confirms that any integrated reading of War with the canonical gospels is historically plausible.
In War, Josephus states that Mary (which means rebellious woman and signifies The Defeated Jews) is caught in the Siege of Jerusalem by Titus. She resorts to roasting and cannibalizing her son, which she offers to other suffering Jews. She is said to belong to the âhouse of hyssopâ (beth-ezob). Hyssop is a plant associated with the Passover feast and her manner of cannibalizing the son is in accord with jewish dietary laws regarding the preparation of a Passover sacrifice of a lamb. So basically Josephus has described a human Passover lamb which is cannibalized by its mother, Mary (the rebellious Jews)
Now Jeebus also has long been recognized as an example of a human Passover sacrifice by the God the father. But Atwill notices that jeebus is dabbed in sour wine with a branch of Hyssop when on the crucifixion and his limbs are not broken (in accordance with jewish dietary laws). What more, Jeebus offers his disciples his body to be cannibalized in a feast preceding the crucifixion. Essentially, atwill claims, this narrative had ended up in getting the rebellious jews to feast on their own messiah, in lieu of the passover lamb. But the irony goes further and this is what links the canonical gospels with their historical mirror, War of the Jews. In atwillâs own words:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And notice that when viewed from such a perspective the passage would certainly be seen as comical, the irony being self-evident of a Messiah who instructs his followers to symbolically "eat of my flesh" actually having his flesh eaten by his mother.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I will post the full except from CM.