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| Title: | Jesus was Caesar
: On the Julian Origin of Christianity. An Investigative Report |
| Author: | Francesco Carotta |
| ISBN: | 9059113969 : 9789059113961 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 512 |
| Weight: | .874 Kg. |
| Published: | Aspekt Uitgeverij BV - December 2004 |
| List Price: | 24.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | The historical Jesus |
The question is: Is Jesus Divus Julius? (Is Jesus the historical figure of Divus Julius, the god to which Julius Caesar was elevated?). The iconography of Caesar do not fit our idea of him. In our minds Caesar is a field marshall and a dictator. However, authentic images portray the idea of the clementia Caesaris, a clement Caesar. Jesus' life is congruent to the life of Caesar. Both Julius Caesar and Jesus began their careers in northern countries: Caesar in Gaul, Jesus in Galilee; both cross a fatal river: the Rubicon and the Jordan; both then enter cities; Corfinium and Cafarnaum; Caesar finds Corfinium occupied by a man of Pompey and besieges him, while Jesus finds a man possessed by an impure spirit. There is similarity in structure as well as in place names. People in the stories of Caesar and of Jesus are structurally the same people, even by name and location. Caesar's most famous quotations are found in the gospels in structurally significant places.
"The territory in which the new Christian religion spread two thousand years ago can be defined as the Imperium Romanum. This process met with success because after three centuries the late Roman emperor Constantine the Great made Christianity the official cult of the state. Historical research has always emphasized the tight interconnection between this religion and the Roman world empire. The book at hand ties in with this fact but goes further and reveals new connections which have never been seen that way." -- Erika Simon PhD, Professor emeritus of Archaeology, Würzburg.
