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Topic History of: Very interesting prog on BBC2 last night Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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veritas
Solihull Exile wrote: It only seems the other day that the book 'The holy blood and the holy grail' changed many people's ideas of biblical history.
Due to lack of real evidence no doubt in a hundred years time a different view will prevail.
Just have to wait for Veritas to invent a time machine
what makes you think I don't have one already?
Solihull Exile
It only seems the other day that the book 'The holy blood and the holy grail' changed many people's ideas of biblical history.
Due to lack of real evidence no doubt in a hundred years time a different view will prevail.
Just have to wait for Veritas to invent a time machine
In The Know
Final part of this 2-parter tonight .... been absolutely fascinating.
veritas wrote: He most certainly did have a Kingdom and I'm a descendant.
You couldn't invent a character like Jesus if you tried.
The prog agreed that David existed - but in an area much closer to the Lebanon border - certainly NOT Jerusalem (and his "kingdom" was so small that no evidence of its existance remains)!
He also lived around 100 years BEFORE the buildings etc uncovered and attributed to him (these were built mainly by someone else - forgotten his name now, was it Omni? - who gets a one word mention in the Bible).
No one is suggesting that Jesus was invented.
veritas
He most certainly did have a Kingdom and I'm a descendant.
The most informative book on the 'bible' is by the Aussie Dead Sea Scrolls expert Barbara Thiering.
She decoded the Scrolls and many of (my relative) Jesus and the Bible's 'miracles' have an easy explanation.
For instance- a Virgin was a girl who hadn't yet had a baby..not a virgin as we think. therefore Mary hadn't had a child and Jesus (my relative) was her first.
Walking on water was an old Rabbi ritual..they built a stage just under the water out about 20 feet and the rabbi would walk out and do his rituals...but Jesus (my relative) being an unordained rabbi outraged everyone by walking 'on water' and doing the rituals...
there's always a basis of truth in everything.
You couldn't invent a character like Jesus if you tried.