29. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Clement
30. Jerome,de viris illustr, x
31. Tertullian,De Praesor. Haer, c. xxxii
32. G.A. Wells,The Jesus Legend, Open Court Publishing, 1996, p 228
33. G.A.Wells. The Jesus Legend, p 228
34. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Flavia Domitilla
35. Babylonian Talmud, Gitt. 56b-57a
36. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Flavia Domitilla
37. Josephus,Life of Flavius Josephus, 65, 363
38. Josephus,Ant. XIV, x, ii
99. David Noel Freedman,The Unity of the Hebrew Bible, 1991, p 57
100. Mary Douglas,Leviticus as Literature, 1999, pp 236-37
101. Robert Alter,The Art of Biblical Narrative, 1981; Yairah Amit,Reading Biblical Narratives, 2001
The Historical Origins of Christianity part three
Selected passages from Joseph Atwills Caesars Messiah(2011) -reposted without the author's permission
If the Gospels achieved only the replacement of the militaristic messianic movement with a pacifistic one, they would have been one of the most successful pieces of propaganda in history.But the authors wanted even more.They wanted not merely to pacify the religious warriors of Judea but to make them worship Caesar as a god.And they wanted to inform posterity that they had done so.
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