Re: {UAH} The book that claims Jesus had a wife and kids — and the embattled author behind it - The Washington Post
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lucky thing no Christian will pull out the dagger for this
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 4:28 PM EST 'edward pojim' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community wrote:
>Ocen;
>
>As with anything about JC, this book will garner readership and criticism in equal measure.
>
>Jesus is the one guy who has the knack to divide the world every time his name is mentioned. I don't know if this book changes anything about the person of Jesus Christ, for he's remembered not because of his chastity, but because of his message - that he died for our sins and we are now all eligible to join him in Heaven if we only accept him as our personal saviour.
>
>Sounds like a pretty easy deal to me, but is it? The struggle continues.
>
>Pojim
>
>
>
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>On Mon, 11/10/14, ocennekyon@gmail.com <ocennekyon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Subject: {UAH} The book that claims Jesus had a wife and kids — and the embattled author behind it - The Washington Post
> To: "Ugandans Heart" <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Monday, November 10, 2014, 12:58 PM
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/10/the-book-that-claims-jesus-had-a-wife-and-kids-and-the-controversial-author-behind-it/?tid=HP_more?tid=HP_more
>
>
>
> The book that claims Jesus had a wife and kids —
> and the embattled author behind it
> Reproduction of print
> showing Christ and Mary Magdalene. (Library of Congress
> Prints and Photographs Division)The authors
> want to talk about Christ. They want you to know that,
> buried beneath centuries of misinformation and
> conspiracy, Jesus had a secret wife, named Mary Magdalene,
> and he fathered two children with her. And they want you to
> know that their book on the matter, named the
> "Lost Gospel," is on sale soon for
> $21.74. "If true," reported the Daily Mail in an overheated
> dispatch, "this would make it the greatest revelation into
> the life of Jesus in nearly 2,000 years."Indeed. If
> true. But is this just the latest theory of
> an embattled theologian?Rekindling one of the
> Jesus Christs's greatest mysteries, a la "The Da Vinci
> Code," the new book draws from a
> 1,500-year-old Aramaic-language manuscript found inside
> the British Library. There, the authors say, the secrets of
> Jesus's family life have been in plain sight for more
> than a century."What the Vatican feared — and
> what ["Da Vinci Code" author] Dan Brown only
> suspected — has come true," begins the book, authored by York
> University (Canada) professor Barrie Wilson
> and documentarian Simcha Jacobovici."There is
> now written evidence that Jesus was married to Mary the
> Magdalene and that they had children together. … Gathering
> dust in the British Library is a document that takes us into
> the missing years of Jesus's life. … According to the
> document that we uncovered, sometime during this period he
> became engaged, got married, had sexual relations, and
> produced children. Before anyone gets his/her theological
> back up, keep in mind that we are not attacking anyone's
> theology. We are reporting on text."The text in
> question is called the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias
> Rhetor, written on treated animal skin, which was brought to
> the United Kingdom in 1847 when the British Museum bought it
> from an Egyptian monastery. Scholars scrutinized the
> document and discarded it as insignificant.Then,
> years ago, Wilson and Jacobovici gave it a look, and began
> to suspect otherwise. The Sunday Times quoted Wilson describing it as an
> "ancient Syriac manuscript lurking in the British Museum
> … Scholars have known about it for almost 200 years, but
> have not known what to make of it."But these
> authors, who are expected to answer questions on Wednesday
> at the British Library, did. They claim the meaning of the
> text had been enshrouded in code and "embedded meaning." It speaks of a figure named
> Joseph, who apparently bore striking similarities
> to Jesus. He was depicted as "savior-figure," the
> book said. "Joseph, like Jesus, was assumed dead and
> turned up alive; he too had humble beginnings and ended up a
> king of sorts." So they contend Joseph was really
> Jesus in the text.And this Joseph, they said, had a
> wife named Aseneth, who they purport represented Mary
> Magdalene. "Put simply, in order to convey the stature of
> Aseneth — perhaps Mary the Magdalene — to his audience,
> the unknown author of our manuscript selected a dominant
> image … he could be sure his readers would readily
> understand."The book's purported findings,
> however, only tell part of the story. Jacobovici, widely
> known in the theological community, has already come
> under criticism for pursuing theories of early
> Christianity that many scholars have dismissed. The
> controversy is a subplot to the grander drama
> surrounding the study of Jesus's life, illustrating the
> tug-and-pull between popular interest, entrenched doctrine,
> the potential for big payouts and the limits of academic
> inquiry.In 2002, Jacobovici, a Canadian filmmaker who
> studies biblical archaeology, pushed
> out a documentary that hailed a seemingly pivotal
> relic called the James ossuary, which allegedly showed
> Jesus had a family. Later named one of the top 10 scientific hoaxes of
> all time by Discovery Channel, its owner was indicted on
> charges of forgery, and archaeologists from Israel to the
> United States denounced the ossuary as a hoax.
> "It's a publicity stunt, and it will make these guys
> very rich," University of Arizona archaeologist William G.
> Dever told The Washington Post in 2007. "And it
> will upset millions of innocent people because they don't
> know enough to separate fact from
> fiction."Jacobovici went on to author other works
> called out for veering into untruth. One imbroglio spilled
> over into the courts, with Jacobovici suing a critic
> for libel. Jacobovici fumed in aninterview with Time: He "crossed the line
> from fair comment to outright libel. Specifically, he has
> accused me repeatedly — verbally and in writing — of
> 'forging archaeology.'"Then a group of
> academics from Duke University to Columbia University to Tel
> Aviv Universitywrote a joint letter in 2008 that cast
> suspicion on his work involving the Talpiot tomb, which
> Jacobovici claimed showed Jesus had a family. The
> letter, signed by 17 academics, called Jacobovici's
> work "controversial" and disputed his assessment that
> one archaeologist's widow had "vindicated" his claims about the
> relics."We wish to protest the misrepresentation of
> the conference proceedings in the media," the lettersaid. "And make it clear that the majority of
> scholars … either reject the identification of the Talpiot
> tomb as belonging to Jesus's family or find this claim
> highly speculative."So what about this most
> recent one?"It sounds like the deepest bilge,"
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 4:28 PM EST 'edward pojim' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community wrote:
>Ocen;
>
>As with anything about JC, this book will garner readership and criticism in equal measure.
>
>Jesus is the one guy who has the knack to divide the world every time his name is mentioned. I don't know if this book changes anything about the person of Jesus Christ, for he's remembered not because of his chastity, but because of his message - that he died for our sins and we are now all eligible to join him in Heaven if we only accept him as our personal saviour.
>
>Sounds like a pretty easy deal to me, but is it? The struggle continues.
>
>Pojim
>
>
>
>--------------------------------------------
>On Mon, 11/10/14, ocennekyon@gmail.com <ocennekyon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Subject: {UAH} The book that claims Jesus had a wife and kids — and the embattled author behind it - The Washington Post
> To: "Ugandans Heart" <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Monday, November 10, 2014, 12:58 PM
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/10/the-book-that-claims-jesus-had-a-wife-and-kids-and-the-controversial-author-behind-it/?tid=HP_more?tid=HP_more
>
>
>
> The book that claims Jesus had a wife and kids —
> and the embattled author behind it
> Reproduction of print
> showing Christ and Mary Magdalene. (Library of Congress
> Prints and Photographs Division)The authors
> want to talk about Christ. They want you to know that,
> buried beneath centuries of misinformation and
> conspiracy, Jesus had a secret wife, named Mary Magdalene,
> and he fathered two children with her. And they want you to
> know that their book on the matter, named the
> "Lost Gospel," is on sale soon for
> $21.74. "If true," reported the Daily Mail in an overheated
> dispatch, "this would make it the greatest revelation into
> the life of Jesus in nearly 2,000 years."Indeed. If
> true. But is this just the latest theory of
> an embattled theologian?Rekindling one of the
> Jesus Christs's greatest mysteries, a la "The Da Vinci
> Code," the new book draws from a
> 1,500-year-old Aramaic-language manuscript found inside
> the British Library. There, the authors say, the secrets of
> Jesus's family life have been in plain sight for more
> than a century."What the Vatican feared — and
> what ["Da Vinci Code" author] Dan Brown only
> suspected — has come true," begins the book, authored by York
> University (Canada) professor Barrie Wilson
> and documentarian Simcha Jacobovici."There is
> now written evidence that Jesus was married to Mary the
> Magdalene and that they had children together. … Gathering
> dust in the British Library is a document that takes us into
> the missing years of Jesus's life. … According to the
> document that we uncovered, sometime during this period he
> became engaged, got married, had sexual relations, and
> produced children. Before anyone gets his/her theological
> back up, keep in mind that we are not attacking anyone's
> theology. We are reporting on text."The text in
> question is called the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias
> Rhetor, written on treated animal skin, which was brought to
> the United Kingdom in 1847 when the British Museum bought it
> from an Egyptian monastery. Scholars scrutinized the
> document and discarded it as insignificant.Then,
> years ago, Wilson and Jacobovici gave it a look, and began
> to suspect otherwise. The Sunday Times quoted Wilson describing it as an
> "ancient Syriac manuscript lurking in the British Museum
> … Scholars have known about it for almost 200 years, but
> have not known what to make of it."But these
> authors, who are expected to answer questions on Wednesday
> at the British Library, did. They claim the meaning of the
> text had been enshrouded in code and "embedded meaning." It speaks of a figure named
> Joseph, who apparently bore striking similarities
> to Jesus. He was depicted as "savior-figure," the
> book said. "Joseph, like Jesus, was assumed dead and
> turned up alive; he too had humble beginnings and ended up a
> king of sorts." So they contend Joseph was really
> Jesus in the text.And this Joseph, they said, had a
> wife named Aseneth, who they purport represented Mary
> Magdalene. "Put simply, in order to convey the stature of
> Aseneth — perhaps Mary the Magdalene — to his audience,
> the unknown author of our manuscript selected a dominant
> image … he could be sure his readers would readily
> understand."The book's purported findings,
> however, only tell part of the story. Jacobovici, widely
> known in the theological community, has already come
> under criticism for pursuing theories of early
> Christianity that many scholars have dismissed. The
> controversy is a subplot to the grander drama
> surrounding the study of Jesus's life, illustrating the
> tug-and-pull between popular interest, entrenched doctrine,
> the potential for big payouts and the limits of academic
> inquiry.In 2002, Jacobovici, a Canadian filmmaker who
> studies biblical archaeology, pushed
> out a documentary that hailed a seemingly pivotal
> relic called the James ossuary, which allegedly showed
> Jesus had a family. Later named one of the top 10 scientific hoaxes of
> all time by Discovery Channel, its owner was indicted on
> charges of forgery, and archaeologists from Israel to the
> United States denounced the ossuary as a hoax.
> "It's a publicity stunt, and it will make these guys
> very rich," University of Arizona archaeologist William G.
> Dever told The Washington Post in 2007. "And it
> will upset millions of innocent people because they don't
> know enough to separate fact from
> fiction."Jacobovici went on to author other works
> called out for veering into untruth. One imbroglio spilled
> over into the courts, with Jacobovici suing a critic
> for libel. Jacobovici fumed in aninterview with Time: He "crossed the line
> from fair comment to outright libel. Specifically, he has
> accused me repeatedly — verbally and in writing — of
> 'forging archaeology.'"Then a group of
> academics from Duke University to Columbia University to Tel
> Aviv Universitywrote a joint letter in 2008 that cast
> suspicion on his work involving the Talpiot tomb, which
> Jacobovici claimed showed Jesus had a family. The
> letter, signed by 17 academics, called Jacobovici's
> work "controversial" and disputed his assessment that
> one archaeologist's widow had "vindicated" his claims about the
> relics."We wish to protest the misrepresentation of
> the conference proceedings in the media," the lettersaid. "And make it clear that the majority of
> scholars … either reject the identification of the Talpiot
> tomb as belonging to Jesus's family or find this claim
> highly speculative."So what about this most
> recent one?"It sounds like the deepest bilge,"
--
UAH forum is devoted to matters of interest to Ugandans. Individuals are responsible for whatever they post on this forum.To unsubscribe from this group, send email to: ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com or Abbey Semuwemba at: abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com.
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