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Issue No.26, November 2006
7. Before I introduce the final participant, allow me to express a few words. I have been involved for more than two decades trying to unfold the mystery surrounding Jesus. Largely because of the Bible, Jesus has been portrayed in numerous images to include: as a Messiah, as a Teacher, as a Revolutionary, as a Heretic, as a Magician, as an Exorcist, as a Gnostic, as an Essene, as a Zealot, as a Spirit Person, as a Jewish Reformer, as a Myth, as a Composite Figure, and as a Rabbi. This list is not exhaustive.
Every one of these portrayed images had its roots in the Bible and they are convincing only to a point while failing to account for something more concrete. Recognizing Jesus as a committed Jew, I couldnât understand why New Testament was so anti-Jewish. The answers put forth were not fully convincing. Moreover, it has been difficult to account for a sect called Christianity ultimately triumphed and replaced the powerful Roman Empire. Answers were not forthcoming to the point where I felt comfortable with the research dating back to mid 1800s. <b>All along I felt something crucial was missing and only persistent research in the future could shed a new light. And that ânew lightâ surfaced recently in a person named Joseph Atwill.</b>
Joseph is the author of Caesarâs Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus. He claims that Flavius Titus is Jesus, and it were the imperial Romans who fabricated the Gospel accounts for their own political and religious purposes. I recognize this theory will have its own set of believers and non-believers, and the future ongoing research will one day lay validity to this theory provided the evidence and the methodology adopted by Atwill gains credence. <b>At this early stage of investigating Atwillâs thesis, I will say that he has touched the core questions that have been festering around me for years.</b>
- G.B. Singh <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Issue No.26, November 2006
7. Before I introduce the final participant, allow me to express a few words. I have been involved for more than two decades trying to unfold the mystery surrounding Jesus. Largely because of the Bible, Jesus has been portrayed in numerous images to include: as a Messiah, as a Teacher, as a Revolutionary, as a Heretic, as a Magician, as an Exorcist, as a Gnostic, as an Essene, as a Zealot, as a Spirit Person, as a Jewish Reformer, as a Myth, as a Composite Figure, and as a Rabbi. This list is not exhaustive.
Every one of these portrayed images had its roots in the Bible and they are convincing only to a point while failing to account for something more concrete. Recognizing Jesus as a committed Jew, I couldnât understand why New Testament was so anti-Jewish. The answers put forth were not fully convincing. Moreover, it has been difficult to account for a sect called Christianity ultimately triumphed and replaced the powerful Roman Empire. Answers were not forthcoming to the point where I felt comfortable with the research dating back to mid 1800s. <b>All along I felt something crucial was missing and only persistent research in the future could shed a new light. And that ânew lightâ surfaced recently in a person named Joseph Atwill.</b>
Joseph is the author of Caesarâs Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus. He claims that Flavius Titus is Jesus, and it were the imperial Romans who fabricated the Gospel accounts for their own political and religious purposes. I recognize this theory will have its own set of believers and non-believers, and the future ongoing research will one day lay validity to this theory provided the evidence and the methodology adopted by Atwill gains credence. <b>At this early stage of investigating Atwillâs thesis, I will say that he has touched the core questions that have been festering around me for years.</b>
- G.B. Singh <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->