Birth of the Roman Empire
The death of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Roman Empire are epitomised by one ground shaking event - the betrayal and murder of the man accused of seeking the title of King by men whom he had pardoned-
"Even as when rebels did arise to destroy the Roman name By shedding of our Caesar's blood, the horror of the same Did pierce the hearts of all mankind" - Ovid "Of what avail, O Caesar, was your humanity, of what avail your inviolability, of what avail the laws? Nay, though you enacted many laws that men might not be killed by their personal foes, yet how mercilessly you yourself were slain by your friends. Woe for the blood-bespattered locks of grey...alas for the rent robe, which you donned, it seems, only to be slain in it!" - Dio Introduction to the book Et tu, Judas? Then fall Jesus!
Et tu, Judas - then fall Jesus! argues that the Jesus of Nazareth that graces the pages of the New Testament is an entirely mythological personage who owes his existence to the murder of Julius Caesar, and presents a step by step explanation of how the famous saviour of the Christian religion may have entered the world from the wings of a Roman stage. Peruse some of the suspicious parallels between the fates of Caesar and Christ.
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The Passion as Theatre
Were the gospel accounts of the "Passion of Christ" modeled on a mystery play about the epoch-making betrayal and murder of the man-god Julius Caesar? Read 'The Passion as Theatre' here
Galatians Proves there was no Jesus of Nazareth
One of the earliest letters of Christianity is the one that Paul wrote to the Galatians wherein he deals with his disputes with the Jerusalem church leaders. Tradition holds that these men were associates of the recently demised Jesus of Nazareth. Read why this is impossible here
A Most Unremarkable Man
It is one thing that non-Christian historians might have nothing to say about Jesus of Nazareth, but the authors of the New Testament epistles seem to have been similarly unaware of him. For a brief review of some of the documents see the Ghost of Galilee
For a website presenting similar theories to this site see Was Jesus Caesar? by Francesco Carotta. Read the English text here
Patricia Hunter's latest novel brings new life to the already larger than life characters involved in this ancient drama of the closing days of the Roman Republic - General Pompey, Mark Antony, Cleopatra and Caesar himself.
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