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Friday, March 6, 2015

My Review of 'The Lost Gospel' (LARB)

Today my review of The Lost Gospel by Jacobovici and Wilson was posted at the Los Angeles Review of Books webpage.

http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/gronking-jesus/

Excerpt:
...some of the claims that Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson make: (1) a 6th century text that never once refers to Jesus or Mary Magdalene is secretly about Jesus, Mary, and their children; (2) the character “Joseph” named in this text represents Jesus, Apollo, Helios, Mithras, and a Roman emperor simultaneously; (3) Mary Magdalene was not Jewish and was, moreover, a priestess of Artemis; (4) when Jesus refers to the Queen of Sheba (Matt 12:42), he is speaking of Mary in code; (5) Jesus — not a peasant, but a powerful figure in the world of Roman politics — was the victim of not one but two assassination attempts, both of which he survived; (6) the Roman general Germanicus was the second threat to Jesus, but a Roman prefect named Sejanus saved him, Mary, and their children; and (7) the wine of the Last Supper symbolized Mary’s menstrual blood. As you will see below, this is only a small sampling of this book’s originality.
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-anthony

1 comment:

  1. Hope this does not undercut his and Tabor's claim to have found the Jesus family tomb?

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