The brother of Jesus

Extremely interested

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also: Temple was destroyed a few decades after Jesus' death. Israel has not been in-gathered. This contradicts Isaiah.

The light pure light energy ✨️ Unconditional love of a mother's love Birth...Death is unconsciousness Darkness... Where there is a Beginning (Birth) there is a End (Death) Unconditional love of Yahwehs love that gave us life in SPIRT our Spirt in enternal not our Boddies/Vessels..

Yeah love the analogy light doesn't negotiate with darkness it banishes it.

I read that the Septuagint has by one count, over 50 books. The books of the Hebrew canon are in three groups: the Torah (Law), the Neviʾim (Prophets), and the Ketuvim (Writings). The Septuagint has the same books divided in four: Law, history, poetry, and prophets, but includes the books of the Apocrypha.

Your very much in the minority. Her works popular appeal created a monster that eventually destroyed her legitimacy. Unfortunately given the lurid extents of her extrapolations, she is more akin with Dan Brown, sadly. It’s really intoxicating coming up with a new theory of interpreting something popular. By the time your a best seller and being feted by all and sundry, it’s too late. You’ve swallowed your own errors.

What he said was that the first 30 pages of her book sounded all right, but then everything AFTER that went off the rails, with all sorts of speculations presented as facts. I have all her books, and I once thought there MIGHT be something to her interpretation(s) -- i.e. that John the Baptist was the Teacher of Righteousness and that Jesus was the Wicked Priest (wicked, in Thiering's view, because he was claiming to be a priest despite not being of the appropriate bloodline) -- an interpretation which, of course, differs from that of Eisenman, who interprets James the Just as the Teacher of Righteousness and Paul as the 'Liar' (etc.) . . . but, in the end, I have to agree with Tabor that her highly speculative interpretation, as intricate as it is and as fervently put forward as she presents it, just cannot be right. Nevertheless, her interpretation of the different spellings of 'Jerusalem' in the NT Greek -- with one spelling referring to the actual city of Jerusalem but the other spelling being the Qumran community's way of referring to the site of Qumran as an alternative 'Jerusalem' -- THAT seemed to me to be an interesting notion that just MIGHT be on-the-money. Why have 2 ways of spelling 'Jerusalem' in the Greek, if not to differentiate between the real (i.e. illegitimate) and the alternate (i.e. the 'wilderness' location where the 'correct' calendar is in use, etc.)? She made a good case that travel times to Jerusalem-as-Qumran make more sense than to the actual Jerusalem, in certain specific passages in the Gospels. It's too bad that we never got to see a spirited if respectful debate between Thiering and Eisenman or Tabor, or even to have her be interviewed on MythVision by Derek Lambert, or one of the other podcasts devoted to Bible-related discussion. Alas, she died in 2015, a bit too early to appear on these more recent KZfaq channels. As for myself, when I discovered Joseph Atwill's book CAESAR'S MESSIAH, that was when I finally became convinced that she was wrong about Jesus. Atwill proved, to my satisfaction, that Jesus was a fictional character modeled on Titus in WAR OF THE JEWS, his supposed career back-dated 40 years so as to allow him (as a pseudohistorical 'prophet') to accurately predict the 'future' destruction of Jerusalem by the 'Son of man', who would HAVE to have been Titus, since he alone fulfilled those predictions. Thiering died a decade after CAESAR'S MESSIAH was first published, and I wonder if she ever read it. One would think that she would have been aware of it, at some point, and made SOME comment on his thesis, but as far as I've been able to see she never mentions it.

​@patricktilton5377 Great comment! I also think that she was right regarding the alternate spelling of the true Jerusalem in the desert. The Qumran community also spelled Adama instead of Adam to differentiate themselves from the pretender priests at the temple. Damascus, Egypt and Babylon are often used symbolically to denote the profane world. BTW, I think Eisenman is right, he systematically backs up his claims with well documented research. His book James the Brother of Jesus is unreal. And as hard as it is for me to accept, Christianity (with its eating of flesh and drinking of blood) is a sick parody at best, definitely a perversion regardless and a blasphemy at worst, of Ebionite or Nazorean practices.