Religion, Spirituality, and Myth

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List of Articles

Herodian Messiah

1. Mary Mother of Jesus Articles
   • Mary the Mother of Jesus, Who Was She? (1-21-2007)
   • Mary the Mother of Jesus, Part II (1-21-2007)
   • Mary the Mother of Jesus as 'Daughter of Aaron' (6-15-2009)
   • Women at the Cross and the Tomb of Jesus (10-4-10)
2. Jesus the Nazarene Articles
   • Sequencing The Last Days of Jesus (8-20-2009)
   • Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera, Father of Jesus? (9-3-10)
   • Jesus Christ, Messiah of Levi? (10-10-2010)
   • Jesus as 'the Egyptian' of Josephus (1-3-2012)
   • Jesus convicted by Sanhedrin 40 days before crucifixion (5-2-2012)
   • Schizophrenic Jesus: Spiritual teacher of peace & love or Jewish revolutionary? (5-7-2012)
   • Jonah and the whale as Christian symbolism: Spiritual rebirth / passing from death to life (5-9-2012)
   • Jesus, the Samaritans, and 'the Egyptian' (6-25-2012)
   • Jesus the Nazarene and Celibacy (8-14-2012)
3. Paul of Tarsus Articles
   • Paul, Descendant of Herod (5-21-2008)
   • Josephus on Paul of Tarsus (6-27-2012)
4. Gnostic Articles
   • Let the dead bury the dead (6-20-2012)
   • The Gospel of Thomas, A Gnostic Interpretation (6-24-2012)
5. Dead Sea Scrolls Articles
   • Dating the 'Teacher of Righteousness' (3-24-2012)
   • Condemnation of the 'Princes of Judah' in the DSS (4-11-2012)
6. Other Articles
   • Tomb of Antigonus? (3-31-2011)
   • Scientific Report on Bones Found in the Abba Tomb (12-27-2011)
   • Josephus' Ancestry (4-27-2008)
   • Josephus on the two Mattathiases in Jewish Wars (5-3-2008)
   • Doris, first wife of Herod (8-3-2008)
   • The Children of Aristobulus IV, son of Herod and Mariamne I
   • References to David in the NT
   • The First Adam, Philo's Concept of Two Adams (8-4-09)
   • Myth and Religious Parables (3-31-2007)
   • Mythic meaning 'Slaying One's Father' (10-5-2011)
   • The Number 153 (11-18-2007)

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Reference Links

• Search the works of Flavius Josephus
• Suetonius: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
• Cassius Dio: Roman History (Univ. of Chicago)
• Cassius Dio: Roman History (Project Gutenberg)
• Correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Trajan
• Correspondence between Seneca and Paul of Tarsus
• Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, alt site