John of Gamala

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John of Gamala is said to have been an anti-Roman rebel in the first Christian century. The Italian atheist Luigi Cascioli claimed in his 2002 book La favola di Cristo (“The Fable of Christ”) that Jesus never existed, but was a fictional version of this same John of Gamala.

Alleged life story

According to Cascioli, the following family tree would result in the paternal line:

Cascioli then tries to assign the life story of Jesus, as far as it is described in the Gospels and the testimonies of Flavius ​​Josephus , Kelsus (about Origen ) and other ancient authors, to the figure of John of Gamala.

History of the creation of the figure

John of Gàmala is a literary character from the novel For the Temple by George Alfred Henty . The 19th century book describes him as a hero who fought the Romans after they destroyed the temple in Jerusalem in 70. John was converted and became a follower of Jesus. In the preface to his novel, Henty makes it clear that John of Gàmala is his literary invention.

The French author Daniel Massè claimed as early as 1926 that the Jewish Messiah, or Christ, crucified under Pontius Pilate and glorified as the Son of God, was the eldest of seven sons of Judas Gaulonites, instigator of the revolt against the Romans around 760 of the Roman era, known as revolt against the census or Quirinus.

Individual evidence

  1. Luigi Cascioli: La favola di Cristo . Self-published, 2002, p. 176 (Italian, online ( memento of December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF]). La favola di Cristo ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.antiguatau.it
  2. ^ George Alfred Henty : For the Temple. A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem . 1888, ISBN 978-1-4515-9290-0 (new edition 2010).
  3. Daniel Dimensions: L'enigme de Jésus Christ . Éditions du Siècle, Paris 1926 ( online ).