Historicity of Jesus - 2

[Husky]

The following looks like IS' own remark to the news. The bold bit is what I suspected.



bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/did-jesus-have-a-wife-tom-holland/

End Note: Of course, we do not know if such a man as Jesus ever lived. The best Christian scholars have not been able to give us any proofs. And the history of the compilation of the Bible is now so well known that the Bible’s contents cannot be taken as factual. [color="#0000FF"]So whether Jesus had a wife — or two according to Biblical exegete and theologist Barbara Thiering – is really neither here nor there. He is described in pious tales as a rabbi and in Jewish society from ancient times till today, there is no such thing as an unmarried rabbi. But the evidence produced for Jesus’s wife — first or second we do not know — is not yet proved, and the scholars involved are feminists who may have a bone to pick with a misogynistic Church. Their perhaps unreal papyrus piece is timely evidence when there is a push to put ladies in the Roman pulpit. And there is the other angle: if Jesus had a real wife, then he must have been a real husband too. So a failing Christian Church in a Europe that has gone beyond belief gets an historical boon:[/color] a real historical Jesus and — never mind true believers! — a real historical wife too. As least she is historical and not hysterical. Socrates, the greater man altogether and the one we should follow, had to suffer a hysterical wife (who was also historical without need of a papyrus certificate). – Editor

In any case, how are they choosing to reconcile this with the previously "rediscovered" gospel about the homosexual jesus again? [IIRC the 'secret gospel of Paul or Mark' or something.]



Most convenient that there seems to be a jeebus for every minority/oppressed group these days*, just as in the not so distant past there was a jeebus for every majority/oppressor group (a Roman jeebus, an oryan jeebus among the nazis, etc).



* Recall such examples as:

- the South African movie - from within the last few years - by a European-origin christian who specifically chose a native African to play jeebus.

- the recent "jesus was a dalit too" concoction, that is peddled among its target audience and not in Europe or China, obviously.





Having said that, if they're now manufacturing new "evidence" for new jesuses in order to appeal to different groups of people, that would be exactly the same as what christian gospel manufacturers had done in the early centuries: a large number of apocryphal gospels existed, each specifically created to appeal to/convert different target groups in the Roman empire. freetruth.50webs.org/B2b.htm#EarlyBiblesGospels (also freetruth.50webs.org/Appendix5.htm ) Indeed, even the 4 canonical gospels and specific Epistles (and Acts and stuff) were created to convert different target groups.



Can compare with how the "new Indian bible" features not only jeebus dancing, singing - in order to use it to inculturate on Hindu dances and music, but also steals shlokas from Hindu religious texts to gift them to christianism. That is, the new Indian Bible is created to target Hindus and retain ex-Hindu sheep by manufacturing for them an "native" christian culture that is supposedly "Indian" when it actually particularly stolen from Hindu religion:



bharatabharati.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/dancing-jesus-in-the-new-indian-bible-sds/

On the left is the dancing Jesus illustration in The New Community Bible (Catholic Edition) for India published by The Bombay St. Paul’s Society, 2008, and released by the Catholic Bishops Conference of India. The “Indian Bible” as it is called, contains invented and interpolated phrases such as “he will dance with songs of joy for you” for Zephaniah 3:17, and numerous quotations from the Vedas, Upanishads, and Puranas. These slokas are described as sourced from “Indian Scriptures”, not Hindu Scriptures.