Historicity of Jesus - 2

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We come back to that curious assertion of Rashi’s that the Genesis narrative was

written to justify genocide. If we put that together with Umberto Eco’s implication

in his book, The Search for The Perfect Language, that validation of the Hebrew

Bible was supported by early Christian scholars primarily to validate Judaism,

which was necessary in order to then “validate” Christianity as the “one true relig-

ion”, we begin to get the uneasy feeling that we have been “had.” What this

amounts to is that we are all “Christian” so that the “rights” of the Jews, the unap-

pealable decrees of Jehovah/Yahweh, could be “inherited” by the Christian Church

as instituted for political reasons by Constantine! Nevertheless, by the very act of

validating Judaism, and “creating” Christianity in the form of the Egyptian relig-

ion, the Western world, in its greed for power, may very well have taken a tiger by

the tail.

and..

Donald Wagner, professor of religion and Middle Eastern studies at North Park

University in Chicago and executive director of the Center for Middle Eastern

Studies, wrote this commentary, the second in a series of five on Christian Zion-

ism, for the Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star:

The British have had a long-term fascination with the idea of Israel and its central role

in biblical prophecy that dates back to their earliest recorded literature. The Epistle of

Gildas (circa. 6th century AD) and the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (735

AD) both saw the British as “the new Israel,” God’s chosen people, who were des-

tined to play a strategic role despite repeated invasions by their Nordic neighbors. In

the British perception of being an elect, these battles were understood in the context

of Israel’s battles against the Philistines, Babylonians and others.