Josephus Called Jesus a Bandit

You might already know about the Essene Templars and how they tell their initiates that they are not connected to Masonry at the early stages of their indoctrination. One such person who has read a lot of my work discussed it with the Essene Patriarch who supported much of what I said about their origins. So when I say Templars I include pre-Christian derivatives of the Mystery Schools that have always had differing names, symbols, icons, effigy mounds, logos, and associations. Most of the rituals remain connected to ancient guilds and priestcraft to be sure.

Stonehenge, Cholula and the Ka'aba of Mecca are ever-present reminders of what knowledge and power lie dormant in the macrochips of metal or rocks. The Kensington Runestone is a touchstone to gain insight into how perverse the academics can be. Hanno left a stone in New England that tells of 30,000 men brought to America before Jesus adopted the moniker of Christ or Christos (if he ever did). The Melungeons near the mounds of Pennsylvania might be the reason Columbus brought an Arabic (Berber) translator on his third trip to America rather than the Ogham-based Hebrew scholar he had on his first voyage. The Bat Creek Nine left the Roman Collosseum and its lions to other Christians, but the archaeologists who found their skeletons held the nearby rock upside down and thought it was Cherokee rather than Judaic or Semitic script according to a top linguist named Cyrus Gordon who has written extensively about the European and America cross-pollinations. All of these things are just recent history when compared with the 250,000 year-old Mexican human artifacts or Leakey's 200,000 year old arrowheads from the shores of the old Salton Sea.

Needless to say if this giant of archaeology would be ridiculed for such evidence, so will I. Dr. Lee and his boss at the National Museum of Canada lost their livelihood and suffered persecution for telling what they thought about the Manitoulin Island quarries dating to 130,000 years ago. But there is so much evidence now that the hegemony must begin to adapt and admit their errors. It isn't really likely that it was just a matter of simple errors of lack of information when you consider the ancient authors like Strabo, Herodotus and Plutarch as well as Plato and many more told these same stories; even if they did have less hard evidence. All the writers who wrote about circumnavigating Libya on two or three year voyages are likely talking about voyages to the Americas. We don't care if it was pseudo-Aristotle or Hammilco - the stories have the ring of truth simply because it was possible and men are adventurous and courageous enough to try it. The hard evidence is not explainable by any other method.

In Crossan’s excellent and open-minded book called The Historical Jesus, I see room for another speculation about Jesus and the likelihood of Jewish writing found in Cherokee country or Tennessee. Gordon ties it in with the Christians and Lions treatment of Rome, but this could have been going on amongst seafarers like the Kelts and Druids for long before that or even Rome. Freedom-seeking mariners might well have left the Mediterranean for the Americas for safer places if for no other reason. This book mentions a Jesus who was head of the brigands or bandits in the time of Josephus and a deal to co-opt these 800 mercenaries or thieves that Josephus made a deal with. Could there have been many Jesuses and the one we amalgamate into Jesus from a non-existent town (name in no records) of Nazareth; whose actual name appears to be Yeshua bar Joseph?

“I conclude, therefore, that a widespread revolt of peasantry spearheaded by banditry took place in 52 C.E., that Josephus suppressed it much more in Jewish War than in Jewish Antiquities, and that Quadratus came south, as Tacitus said, to quell an insurrection and not just to adjudicate a complaint. In plain language, the First Roman-Jewish War almost started in 52 C.E., and it almost started among peasants and bandits rather than among aristocrats and retainers. But since, in Roman eyes, those latter were responsible for keeping order, saving them might well have meant gaining the support of Pallas, for which the price was Felix his brother as next procurator. That might also explain why Jewish Antiquities 20.162 records tensions between Jonathan and Felix, even though, as it says demurely, he himself ‘had requested [Claudius] Caesar to dispatch Felix as a procurator of Judaea.’ Those, of course, are guesses, but guesses warranted by discrepancies in the records.

Be that as it may, and whatever the reasons, Felix went out as governor of Palestine between 52 and 60 C.E. Josephus mentions banditry twice during his rule, and, in each case, one but not the other of his parallel texts combines and confuses bandits with prophets. But, as seen earlier, it is necessary to ignore any mention of prophets or: as Josephus prefers to call them, ‘imposters’ and ‘deceivers,’…” (7)