THE OPEN TOMB: Why and How Jesus Faked His Death and Resurrection by David Mirsch

Author:David Mirsch [Mirsch, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion : Biblical Studies - General History : Ancient - General Religion : Christianity - History - General
ISBN: 9781614345978
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
Published: 2011-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

CRUCIFIXION

Jesus the Nazarene, son of Joseph called Caiaphas the high priest, was crucified on Thursday, March 21, 37 CE at about 9:00 A.M. local time. He was 43 years old and a political leader of the Zealot movement, a movement that espoused the violent overthrow of the Jerusalem establishment and their Roman oppressors. He was willing to risk his life by feigning death during crucifixion in an attempt to invigorate and militarize the nationalistic sentiment then current among many Mosaeans, especially the Zealots and Essenes, with the idea that his public resurrection from death would be taken as the longed for sign from God and would become a rallying point from which the ‘Sons of Light’, with the very real help of God, would start their forty year war against the ‘Sons of Darkness’. With the specialized knowledge he had obtained from his highly placed father and their time in Egypt, and with the help of a close knit group of followers, he was prepared to risk dying on the cross for such an important cause. Countless others had sacrificed as much for their belief in Yahweh’s covenant with Israel and the Law of Moses and he could do no less. As has been mentioned, the willingness to suffer the greatest of tortures and the most excruciating pain even to the point of death, in defense of their beliefs was a prominent feature of the Mosaean culture. It is difficult at this remove to fully appreciate that kind of cultural stoicism, to fully accept and appreciate that both social and theological beliefs were so firmly entrenched as to make the typical Mosaean spiritually immune to the meanest of physical degradations, that people not only were prepared to suffer and die for their beliefs, but very often were prepared to do it willingly. Jesus would have accepted torture and crucifixion as a chance to confirm his beliefs, to show God his worthiness and to accomplish his goals. The idea that he would have naturally tried to avoid pain or would have feared torture, are modern and Western in concept. Jesus was a Mosaean and a Zealot. His religion and his fierce determination to restore the United Monarchy of David made him immune to the threat of torture and pain.

Scholars and traditionalists are convinced that the crucifixion of Jesus took place sometime in the early thirties, from 30 CE to 33 CE, though dates ranging from 28-34 CE have found adherents. As mentioned previously, these dates are predicated on internal evidence within the Gospels and certain assumptions about Jesus and the length of his ministry. Put simply, the Gospel stories indicate that he was born during Herod the Greats’ reign, that ended with Herod’s death in 4 BCE, that Jesus was thirty when he began his ministry and that the ministry lasted from one to three years. The great miscalculation in these traditional views is that even though most scholars agree that Jesus was most probably born between 6-4 BCE, they don’t

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