The Epicurean web page

Charles charlesincal@earthlink.net
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:13:51 -0700 (PDT) (00908439231, 199810150313.UAA11580@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net) 

At 10:34 PM 10/14/98 +1000, you wrote:

>Vincent,

>

>I have much to learn on the background of first century history, but I am

>pretty well convinced that there is next to no support for your claim

>(which incidentally was presented in the same authoritative manner as all

>the other information on the web-page). Given that you think Kersten's

>claims are defensible, perhaps you could tantalise me with just a couple of

>pointers to why you believe that Jesus survived the crucifixion and why you

>believe he fled to Syria. Otherwise I don't think I'll have the interest to

>go and read the book. After all, wild claims on no evidence are fairly

>common for Jesus' life. Barbare Thiering believes that Jesus was married

>and had three (four?) children (from memory)... I heard someone else's

>'reconstruction' that Jesus had died of TB. On the other hand, mainstream

>NT scholarship thinks that Jesus was crucified and died at Roman hands and

>most of what I've read of mainstream NT scholarship seems fairly sane...

>Steve Carson-Rowland

>Queensland, Australia


Charles sez...
John Allegro, over at Stanford, stuck his cacdemic neck out be letting on
that the dead sea scrolls dated from about 200 B.C.E. to 120 A.D. Why?
Because of what the 800+ scrolls say... and other ancillary evidence.
Well, what do the dead sea scrolls say about our boy Jesus?  NOTHING.
What do any of the writers and historians living at that time have to say
about our boy Jesus? NOTHING.
And there is a wee bit of a problem with that.  Apparently he was nobody,
leading noone on a road to nowhere.  In short, he must have been a Zen monk.

 
Ezekiel incorrectly predicts Babylon would conquer Egypt 

Ezekiel incorrectly predicts the destruction of Tyre (Tyrus) by Nebuchadrezzar 

Micah incorrectly predicts the destruction of Jerusalem 

Jeremiah predicts the wrong number of years for exile (which vary from place
to place)