War between christian humanism & jewish materialism
Cicero (1/3, 106 BC – 12/7, 43 BC) was a Roman philosopher
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- Publilius Syrus
- There are 1087 proverbs.
- Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BC)
- You know how large a group they (the Jews) are, and how influential they are in politics.
- Antipater I the Idumaean
- The Romans conquer Judea. Power of marrying a Jew
- Four main branches of Biblical Judaism : Sadducees
- Modern Judaism and Talmudism are descended from Phariseeism. Essenes
- Diodorus
- B.C. - Before Christ to A.D. for Anno Domini, which is Latin for "year of our Lord."
- Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
- Arminius or Hermann the Liberator
- Jews Banished from Italy
- This is what Jewish Josephus said, but the real reason was that the Jewish religion had religious prostitution like the Egyptian religion in Rome.
- Jesus began his ministry .
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Marcus Tullius Cicero (1/3, 106 BC – 12/7, 43 BC) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He was member of a wealthy family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. Cicero speaks of Jewish subversion. “The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows not how numerous the clique is, how they stick together, and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.” "Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills." (Oration in Defense of Flaccus) Cicero was serving as defense counsel at the trial of Flaccus, a Roman official who interfered with Jewish gold shipments to their international headquarters (then, as now) in Jerusalem. Cicero himself certainly was not a nobody, and for one of this stature to have to "speak softly" shows that he was in the presence of a dangerously powerful sphere of influence. So much more information about their subversion may have burnt with the fires of the great libraries of Egypt, Greece, Rome. "You know how large a group they (the Jews of Rome) are, how unanimously they stick together, how influential they are in politics. I shall lower my voice and speak just loudly enough for the jury to hear me; for there are plenty of people to stir up those Jews against me and against every good Roman."— Marcus Tullius Cicero (a lawyer, amongst many other things) defending Valerius Flaccus, accused of stealing gold from Jews, in a trial in Rome during 59 B.C. ~"We come now to the subject of gold from the Jews and that odious imputation. It is because of this particular accusation for what you have looked for this local Laelius (the accuser) and this crowd of Jews around us. Know his number, his union and its power in our assemblies. speak low but not to be heard by judges. As individuals are not lacking among those who act against me and against the best citizens you protect, I will not provide here are new weapons to his wickedness. There was wisdom (in Flaccus) in ending a barbaric superstition (Jewish) and firmness in sweeping, for the good of the republic, this multitude of Jews, which disturb our assemblies." Source: Oratio Pro Flacco Cicero claimed that true (Natural) law is right reason in agreement with nature, universal, consistent, everlasting, whose duty by prescription and to deter wrongdoing by prohibition. Those who contend that 'anti-Semitism' - whatever that may be - is a sort of psychosis of the modern era, are not considering the fact that there was opposition to the Jews in at least four other major historical epochs: the Chaldean-Babylonian, the Egyptian, the Greco-Roman and the Islamic. “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through...all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ****Natural law or the law of Nature refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature and deduce binding rules of moral behavior. The phrase natural law is opposed to the positive law (meaning "man-made law", not necessarily "good law") of a given political community, society, or nation-state, and thus can function as a standard by which to criticize that law. In natural law, jurisprudence, on the other hand, the content of positive law cannot be known without some reference to the natural law. Some use natural law synonymously with natural justice or natural right. Natural law is different from common law, in that natural law is a view that certain rights or values are inherent, while common law is the legal tradition. Natural law theories have, however, exercised a profound influence on the development of English common law, and have featured greatly in the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, and Emmerich de Vattel. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (12/8 65 BC – 11/27 8 BC), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. He lampooned in his Satires traits which are commonly identified as typical of Jews.  Strabo (63/64 BC – ca. AD 24) was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Referring to an event of 87 B.C., and possibly echoing Artemidorus of Ephesus, c. 100 B.C., stated that the world, was "full of Jews," who had "penetrated every city" and become so ubiquitous that, he said, "it is not easy to find any place in the world into which their race has not made its way or in which it has not gained mastery [over the natives]." He also noted that the aliens obtained special privileges and were allowed to function as an enclave largely independent of the local government. This account was proudly endorsed by the Jews' famous apologist, Josephus (Ant. XIV, vii, 2 = Chapters 112-118), writing c. A.D. 94, who quotes Strabo verbatim.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4-65ad) treated the Jews as a criminal race. -“These pestilential people have been known to acquire such influence that they, the vanquished, dictate laws to us the victors.” Juvenal believed that the Jews only existed to cause evil for other peoples. Qunitilian said that Jews were a curse for other people. “The customs of that most criminal nation have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors. (De Superstitione) The great stoic wrote this in response to one of the anti-Jewish uprisings of North Africa in 38 A.D. Diodorus Siculus , was a Greek historian who flourished in the 1st century BC. He observed that Jews treated other people as enemies and inferiors. "Usury" is the practice of lending money at excessive interest rates. This has for centuries caused great misery and poverty for Gentiles. It has brought strong condemnation of the Jews! “The friends of King Antiochus (Epiphanes, reigned 175-163 B.C.) advised him to expel the Jews as they would not mix with others and regard everyone as their enemy and that enmity as inheritance passed on to future generations. Their holy books contain rules and registration aberrant hostile to all humanity.” Source: Bibliotheca Historica “The Jews do not mix with other people, since they consider enemies.” Source: Bibliotheca Historica Publilius Syrus (fl. 85–43 BC), was a Latin writer, best known for his sententiae. He was a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Italy, but by his wit and talent he won the favor of his master, who freed and educated him. All that remains of his corpus is a collection of Sententiae, a series of moral maxims in iambic and trochaic verse. There are 1087 proverbs. 44bc Gaius Julius Caesar (7/13, 100 BC–3/15, 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Caesar's conquest of Gaul extended Rome's territory to the North Sea, and in 55 BC he conducted the first Roman invasion of Britain. In the Middle Ages Caesar was created a member of the Nine Worthies, a group of heroes encapsulating all the ideal qualities of chivalry. Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 BC): With the Jews behind him, Caesar soon became the dictator of Rome and the unchallenged ruler of the world. Alarmed by his increasing subservience to the Jews, a group of loyal Senators, led by Brutus (Marcus Junius Brutus (June 85 BC – 10/23, 42 BC)), a former friend of Caesar's in his pre-Jewish period, resolved to assassinate him. On page 9, Leon says, "In return for the support which he had received from the Jews, Caesar showed them his favor conspicuously, and his decrees in their behalf, which, fortunately, were recorded by Josephus, have been called the Magna Carta of the Jews. Caesar exempted them from compulsory military service, allowed them to send shipments of gold to the Temple in Jerusalem, and recognized the authority of the special Jewish courts." "For many nights after Caesar's murder, groups of Jews came to weep at the site of his funeral pyre." Leon states that Emperor Augustus, who inherited the empire after Caesar's generals fell out among themselves, restored the special privileges of the Jews. This probably explains why he emerged stronger than the other factions which divided Rome after Caesar's death. As Jewish decay continued, the empire rapidly weakened. After the death of Domitian in 96 A. D., the emperors of Rome were no longer of Roman birth; henceforward, they were all foreigners. Jewish Power in Rome: It is certain that in the time of Cicero the Jews had become a formidable political force in Rome itself. Flaccus having prohibited the Jews from collecting gold in his Province for the Temple and sent it to Rome instead, was promptly attacked for oppressing the Jews, and was defended by Cicero, who recorded his speech in Pro Flacoo. Graetz thus explains the circumstances : “The Roman Judaeans were intensely interested in this trial, and many of them appeared in Court amongst the audience. The cowardly Cicero was so much afraid of them that he would have liked to speak in a whisper in order to have been heard by the Judges alone, but not by the Judaeans. 43 BC Cicero said, "We come now to the libel involving the gold, the Jewish gold. This is obviously why the present case is being tried close to the Aurelian Steps. It is because of this particular charge that you have sought out this location, Laelius (the prosecutor), and that mob (referring to the noisy crowd of Jews whom Laelius had assembled to create a commotion at the trial). You know how large a group they (the Jews) are, and how influential they are in politics. I will lower my voice and speak just loudly enough for the jury to hear me; for there are plenty of individuals to stir up those Jews against me and against every good Roman, and I don't intend to make it any easier for them to do this. Since gold was regularly exported each year in the name of the Jews from Italy and all our provinces to Jerusalem, Flaccus issued an edict forbidding its exportation from Asia. Who is there, gentlemen of the jury, who cannot sincerely commend this action? The exportation of gold had been forbidden by the Senate on many previous occasions, and most strictly of all during my consulship. Further, that Flaccus was opposed to this barbarous Jewish superstition was proof of his strong character: that he defended the Republic by frequently denying the aggressiveness of the Jewish mobs at political gatherings was an evidence of his high sense of responsibility." OR “It requires great decision of character, to oppose the barbaric and superstitious Judaeans for the good of our country, and to show proper contempt towards these seditions people, who invade our public assemblies.” "A year later," writes Graetz, "Cicero found his retribution in banishment . . . and his villas were razed to the ground." Thus early was “the fear of the Jews" present even in Republican Rome, and Cicero plainly suggested that they exercised strong political and seditious influences. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Augustus (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus; 9/23 63 BC – 8/19 AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. He is called Octavius from 63 and 44 BC, Octavian from 44 and 27 BC, and Augustus after 27 BC. The young Octavius came into his inheritance after Caesar's assassination in 44 BC. In 43 BC, Octavian joined forces with Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in a military dictatorship until 31 BC. In 27 BC the Senate awarded him the honorific Augustus ("the revered one"). His substantive power stemmed from financial success and resources gained in conquest, the building of patronage relationships throughout the Empire, the loyalty of many military soldiers and veterans, the authority of the many honors granted by the Senate, and the respect of the people. Augustus' control over the majority of Rome's legions established an armed threat that could be used against the Senate, allowing him to coerce the Senate's decisions. With his ability to eliminate senatorial opposition by means of arms, the Senate became docile towards him. The reign of Augustus initiated an era of relative peace known as the Pax Romana, or Roman peace. Despite continuous wars on the frontiers, and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries. Augustus enlarged the empire dramatically, annexing Egypt, Dalmatia, Pannonia, and Raetia, expanded possessions in Africa, and completed the conquest of Hispania. Beyond the frontiers, he secured the empire with client states, and made peace with Parthia through diplomacy. He reformed the Roman system of taxation, developed networks of roads with an official courier system, established a standing army, established the Praetorian Guard, and created official police and fire-fighting services for Rome. Much of the city was rebuilt under Augustus. Upon his death in AD 14, Augustus was declared a god by the Senate—to be worshipped by the Romans. His names Augustus and Caesar were adopted by every subsequent emperor, and the month of August. He was succeeded by his adopted son (also stepson and former son-in-law), Tiberius. Augustus' reign laid the foundations of a regime that lasted for nearly fifteen hundred years through the ultimate decline of the Western Roman Empire and until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. Caesar, in many languages, became the word for emperor, as in the German Kaiser and in the Russian Tsar. The cult of Divus Augustus continued until the state religion of the Empire was changed to Christianity in 391 by Theodosius I. Augustus' ultimate legacy was the peace and prosperity the Empire enjoyed for the next two centuries under the system he initiated. His memory was enshrined in the political ethos of the Imperial age as a paradigm of the good emperor. When told that the Judean king, Herod, had slain his own son, he laughed and said he had much rather be Herod's pig than his son. (T. Reinach,Textes ... ) Antipater I the Idumaean (died 43 BC) was the founder of the Herodian Dynasty and father of Herod the Great. A native of Idumaea, southeast of Judea between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba, which during the time of the Hebrew Bible had been known as the land of Edom, Antipater became a powerful official under the later Hasmonean kings and subsequently became a client of the Roman general Pompey the Great when Pompey conquered Judea in the name of Roman Republic. When Julius Caesar defeated Pompey, Antipater rescued Caesar in Alexandria, and was made chief minister of Judea, with the right to collect taxes. Antipater eventually made his sons Phasaelus and Herod the Governors of Jerusalem and Galilee respectively. After the assassination of Caesar, Antipater was forced to side with Gaius Cassius Longinus against Mark Antony. The pro-Roman politics of Antipater led to his increasing unpopularity among the devout, non-Hellenized Jews. He died by poison. The diplomacy and artful politics of Antipater, as well as his insinuation into the Hasmonean court, paved the way for the rise of his son Herod the Great, who used this position to marry the Hasmonean princess Mariamne, endear himself to Rome and become king of Judea under Roman influence. 37 BC The Romans conquer Judea. Power of marrying a Jew: Herod, whose father was either a Jew or a Judaised Arab, married a princess of the family of the Maccabees, and was made King of Judaea by Antony, in B.C. 37, displacing the Maccabean dynasty. He became intimately associated subsequently with Augustus and Agrippa, the founders of Imperial Rome, and according to Josephus, when these "two men governed the Roman Empire." "Augustus preferred no one to Herod after Agrippa, and Agrippa made no one his greater friend than Herod except Augustus."  Four main branches of Biblical Judaism:
Sadducees - The Sadducees were priestly and aristocratic families who interpreted the law more literally than the Pharisees. They dominated the Temple worship and its rites, including the sacrificial cult. The Sadducees only recognized precepts derived directly from the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, and the existence of angels. The Sadducees were unpopular with the common people. Pharisees - The Pharisees, unlike the Saddducees, maintained the validity of the oral as well as the written law. They were flexible in their interpretations and willing to adapt the law to changing circumstances. They believed in an afterlife and in the resurrection of the dead. Modern Judaism and Talmudism are descended from Phariseeism. Essenes - The Essenes were a separatist group, some of whom formed an ascetic monastic community and retreated to the wilderness of Judea. They shared material possessions and occupied themselves with disciplined study, worship, and work. They practiced ritual immersion and ate their meals communally. One branch did not marry. Many scholars equate this group with the Dead Sea Scroll Sect, and some believe Christianity grew out of this movement. (Revolutionaries) - This group agrees with the Pharisees in all respects except that it follows the anarchistic ideology "No king but God!" They are usually thought of as the Sicarii and Zealots. The Samaritans are an ethnoreligious group of the Levant. Samaritanism is an Abrahamic religion closely related to Judaism. Based on the Samaritan Torah, Samaritans claim their worship is the true religion of the ancient Israelites prior to the Babylonian Exile, preserved by those who remained in the Land of Israel, as opposed to Judaism, which is a altered religion brought back by the exiled returnees. They only use the Pentateuch. Many of the Samaritans were Babylonians who adopted the Hebrew religion after the population transfer at the beginning of the Exile. The Herodian dynasty was Edomites forcefully converted to Judaism. Herod the Great was a great architectural builder. The current ‘Wailing Wall’ is said to be a wall of the new Temple which he built, but there is some question to that. He also built magnificent palaces and resorts. The Edomites were the descendents of Esau the enemy of Israel and portrayed in the Talmud as the ‘unbelievers’. In other word, the ‘rascals’ became Jews. Hillel the Elder (born Babylon traditionally c.110 BCE, died 10 CE in Jerusalem) was a famous Jewish religious leader. He is associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud. He was the founder of the House of Hillel school for Tannaïm (Sages of the Mishnah) and the founder of a dynasty of Sages who stood at the head of the Jews living in the land of Israel until roughly the fifth century of the Christian Era. He is popularly known as the author of two sayings: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am 'I'?" And "If not now, when?" and the expression of the ethic of reciprocity, or "Golden Rule": "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn." "As Hillel the Elder had stated, whosoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whosoever that saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world." Hillel lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod and the Roman Emperor Augustus. In the Midrash, the periods of Hillel's life are made parallel to those in the life of Moses. Both lived 120 years, and at the age of forty Hillel went to the Land of Israel; forty years he spent in study; and the last third of his life he was the spiritual head of the Jewish people. (This could be an edited offset for Jesus’ Golden rule. Even if Hillel said this, as a Jew he was speaking only towards other Jews and not the despised Gentiles.) ****Jews believe they have Dominion over the World via the Old Testament. Christians might or might not interpret these Scriptures differently, but they are naïve in understanding Jewish beliefs. Most Christians interpret Jewish beliefs through their own understanding of what they think Jews believe rather than what Jews really believe. The Psalms of the Elders of Zion: “The Lord of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before His elders shall be Glory. - Isaiah 24:23 Request of Me, and I will make nations your inheritance, and the ends of the earth your possession. - Psalms 2:8 For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly ruined. - Isaiah 60:12 the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. - Daniel 2:44 Genesis 27:29 Nations shall serve you and kingdoms shall bow down to you Deuteronomy 28:9-10 The Lord will establish you as His holy people as He swore to you, if you observe the commandments of the Lord, your God, and walk in His ways. Then all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they will fear you. Deuteronomy 15:6 For the Lord, your God, has blessed you, as He spoke to you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. Deuteronomy 6:11-10 And it will be, when the Lord, your God, brings you to the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, and you will eat and be satisfied. ... Deuteronomy 2:25 Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the nations that are under the entire heaven, who will hear reports of you and shake and be in trepidation because of you. Deuteronomy 7:22-24 And the Lord, your God, will drive out those nations from before you, little by little. You will not be able to destroy them quickly, lest the beasts of the field outnumber you. But the Lord, your God, will deliver them to you, and He will confound them with great confusion, until they are destroyed. And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from beneath the heavens; no man will be able to stand up before you, until you have destroyed them. Psalms 2:8 Request of Me, and I will make nations your inheritance, and the ends of the earth your possession. Psalms 22:28-29 All the ends of the earth shall remember and return to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall prostrate themselves before You. For the kingship is the Lord's, and He rules over the nations. Psalms 24:1 The land and the fullness thereof are the Lord's; the world and those who dwell therein. Psalms 33:12 Praiseworthy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people that He chose as His inheritance. Psalms 47:2-4 All peoples, clap hands; shout to God with a voice of praise. For the Lord is Most High; yea, feared; a great King over all the earth. He shall plague peoples in our stead and kingdoms under our feet. Psalms 67:5-7 May the peoples praise you, God; may all the peoples praise you. The land yields its harvest; God, our God, blesses us. May God bless us still, so that all the ends of the earth will fear him. Psalms 72:8-9 And may he reign from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. May nobles kneel before him, and may his enemies lick the dust. Psalms 99:1-3 The LORD reigns, let the nations tremble; he sits enthroned between the cherubim, let the earth shake. Great is the LORD in Zion; he is exalted over all the nations. Let them praise your great and awesome name--he is holy. Psalms 110:2 The Lord will extend your mighty sceptre from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies. Psalms 110:6 He will judge nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth. Psalms 111:6 He has shown his people the power of his works, giving them the lands of other nations. Proverbs 22:7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. Isaiah 10:14 As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as men gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries. Isaiah 14:26-27 This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations. For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back? Isaiah 49:23 Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Isaiah 49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Isaiah 60:12 For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly ruined. Isaiah 61:5-6 Aliens will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards. And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast. Haggai 2:7-8 I will shake all the nations, and the treasures of all the nations will be brought to this Temple. I will fill this place with glory, says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. ("... as it is written, The Silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of Hosts. He has long since given them to us," - Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 103b) Zechariah 9:10 His (Zion's King) rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Verses 51, 52, 53 William Barclay found in this gracious hymn the "dynamite" of the Christian religion which has wrought in the world a triple revolution: He scatters the proud ... this is a moral revolution. ... He cast down the mighty; he exalts the humble. This is a social revolution. ... He has filled those who are hungry ... those who are rich he hath sent empty away. This is an economic revolution. Thus, there is in this beautiful song a prophetic discerning of the immense consequences of the religion of Christ upon the earth.  B.C. - Before Christ to A.D. for Anno Domini, which is Latin for "year of our Lord."
4 BC As the Shepherds heard, “Glory to God, Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards Men.” (or Peace on Earth towards Men of Goodwill) May this be our motivation. ‘Jesus’ is the same as Joshua (Yahshua) or ‘God saves’. It was a common name. Christ is Greek and Messiah is Hebrew for the English word Savior. It can be used in many ways. Our Jesus was Yahshua ben Joseph, ‘Jesus’ is Greek for ‘son of Zeus’, adaptable for the Greeks. Jews have had dozens of Messiahs throughout the centuries, sometimes referring to a savior from a political power and sometimes imbued with God’s spirit. Christmas- "Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song Stille Nacht were written in Austria in 1818 by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber. Silent night holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant so tender and mild, Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, Alles schläft; einsam wacht Nur das traute hochheilige Paar. Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar, Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh! Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh! Even Jesus’ birth shows the mixture of non-Hebrew blood into the Jews. The genealogy of Matthew has Tamar and Rahab, both Canaanites, Ruth is a Moabite and Uriah was a Hittite, was Bathsheba also? Even though many aspects of Jesus’ life paralleled gods of the mystery religions, some may have been midrashed and other significant episodes were unique.  9 AD Battle of the Teutoburg Forest establishes the boundary between Romans and Germanic peoples. It was a decisive Germanic victory, Roman losses in excess of 2 Legions.
  Arminius or Hermann the Liberator (18bc-21ad) was a chieftain of the Cherusci who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. His influence held an allied coalition of Germanic tribes together in opposition to the Romans but after decisive defeats to the Roman general Germanicus, nephew of the Emperor Tiberius, his influence waned and he was assassinated on the orders of rival Germanic chiefs. Although Arminius was ultimately unsuccessful in forging unity among the Germanic tribes, the loss of the Roman legions in the Teutoburg forest had a far-reaching effect on the subsequent history of both the ancient Germanic tribes and on the Roman Empire. Germanicus' campaign was the last major Roman military effort east of the Rhine.
 Tiberius (11/16 42 BC – 3/16 37 AD), was Roman Emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD. Tiberius was one of Rome's greatest generals, conquering Pannonia, Dalmatia, Raetia, and temporarily Germania before Arminius; laying the foundations for the northern frontier.
19 The Jews had come to Rome in 139 BC, there had been frequent riots against them and they were expelled in 19 ad by Tiberius and fully expelled in 49 AD. 19ad - Jews Banished from Italy. - Josephus concluded, "Such were the insolent deeds of the priests in the temple of Isis. Now I return to relate what befell the Jews at Rome at this time, as my account promised before." Thereupon he recounts the tale as follows. A worthless Jew, a fugitive from justice in Judea, conspiring with three equally worthless accomplices and giving out that he expounded the wisdom of the law of Moses, persuaded one Fulvia, a Roman lady of quality who was a proselyte to Judaism, to contribute purple and gold for the temple at Jerusalem ; but the men diverted her gifts to their own uses. Tiberius, informed of the matter by Fulvia's husband, who likewise bore the name of Saturninus, ordered all the Jews banished from Rome; and the consuls drafted four thousand of the men and sent them to Sardinia, inflicting severe punishment on a large number who refused to serve in the army lest they be compelled in the service to violate the Jewish law. Thus the Jews were banished from Rome because of the wickedness of four men. This is what Jewish Josephus said, but the real reason was that the Jewish religion had religious prostitution like the Egyptian religion in Rome. Mandaeism or Mandaeanism is a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic worldview. Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enosh, Noah, Shem, Aram and especially John the Baptist. Mandeans seem to be indigenous to Mesopotamia and are certainly of Pre Arab and Pre Islamic origin. Mandaeans recognize several prophets. Yahya ibn Zakariyya, known by Christians as John the Baptist, is accorded a special status, higher than his role in Christianity and Islam. Mandaeans do not consider John to be the founder of their religion but revere him as one of their greatest teachers, tracing their beliefs back to Adam. Mandaeans maintain that Jesus and Muhammad were "false messiahs" who perverted the teachings entrusted to him by John.  30 Jesus began his ministry. He fought the Talmudic Jews and their materialism. It is said that the unique convergence of geographic crossroads, Greek culture and Roman trade routes was instrumental for the beginning of Christianity. Jesus spoke Aramaic, a dialect of Hebrew, which was still spoken up to recent years. George Lamsa, an Aramaic speaker wrote several books describing Jesus’ speech and idioms. Jesus spoke against the “traditions of the elders” which subsequent Rabbis equated with the Talmud.
Jesus uses the colloquialism of borrowed Persian terms. A daimon was a divine influence and could be for good or ill. By this time, demons were more associated with illness and angels with healing, both powers of the air from Persia. Jesus also drew on Greco-Roman god imagery. Zeus ruled the upper sphere, Poseidon ruled the outer sphere and Hades ruled the lower sphere. Hades refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and the god of the dead. Hades and his brothers Zeus and Poseidon defeated the Titans and claimed rulership over the universe, ruling the underworld, sky, and sea, respectively. Hades is depicted as a grim figure. Jesus in his divinity was given rulership, lordship over all. “Jesus” actually mean son of Zeus, used to evangelize the Greeks and Romans. In the Greek, there were different aspects of divinity: 1) ie. Human deity was Saipedan; 2) deity adopted was Heracles; 3) deity expressed was Asclepius (healing); and 4) fully divine human was Dionysus. All of these aspects are expressed in orthodox Christology. For background, the Roman Empire was 120 million in population and was 2000 miles from North to South and 3000 miles from West to East. There were 1 million people in Rome in one square mile. One could walk across the city in 15 minutes. Most buildings were multi-storied. Corinth was the 4th largest city in the Empire with about 400,000 population. Directory: 2016 2016 -> Senate, No. 627 State of new jersey 217th legislature 2016 -> 2017 afoCo Landmark Scholarship Program 2016 -> Instructions for the Preparation of Camera-Ready Contributions to the Conference Proceedings 2016 -> Strategic Plan South Sudan Country Office Context 2016 -> Original: English 2016 -> Step student Scholarships for Year 10-13 2016 -> Resolution 2016 -> American bar association adopted by the house of delegates Download 8.06 Mb. Share with your friends:
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