the proof of the pudding


Het gaat dus eigenlijk allang niet meer om bovennatuurlijke wonderbaarlijke geheimzinnige hokuspokus,
dat is leuk voor kleine kinderen, zeer simpele zielen, hardnekkige bijgelovigen & maffe samenzweerders!
Can we say that Yehoshua haNatsri aka haMashiah was one of the Jewish Sages of his days? This at least
is the conclusion of Flavius Josephus some decades after the Cross. Although it is generally recognized that the passage concerning Yeshua in the extant Greek manuscripts of his Jewish Antiquities was distorted by later Christian hands, "the most probable view seems to be that out text represents substan-tially what Josephus wrote, but that some alterations have been made by a Christian interpolator!" But the
original wording is not completely lost. One can already detect the method of the Christian revisor in the beginning of the passage. "About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man - if indeed one ought to call him a man!" It is precisely this unhappy interpolation that guarantees the authenticity of Josephus' statement that Jesus was "a wise man!" Josephus' definition of Jesus as a "wise man" is confirmed by
the Arabic translation of the supposed original wording of the passage. Evidently by these words Josephus identifies Jesus with the Jewish Sages. The Greek word for "wise" has a common root with the Greek term
"sophist," a term that did not then possess the negative connotation it has today. The Greek "sophist" also appears in rabbinic texts as a designation for a Jewish Sage. Elsewhere Josephus refers to two out-standing Jewish Sages as sophists, and he regularly used this title to designate prominent Jewish Sages.
The Greek author Lucian from Samosata ca. 120 ~ 180 A.D., similarly refers to Jesus as "the crucified sophist!" I am not sure that Jesus himself would have liked being seen as a Jewish rabbinic scholar, but this i not important, what is important is that Josephus' refernece to Jesus as "a wise man" challenges the
recent tendency to view Jesus as merely a simple peasant.
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