Bible scholar claims story of Jesus Christ was entirely fabricated by Roman aristocrats [1]
American Bible scholar claims ancient 'confessions' prove story of Jesus Christ was entirely fabricated by Roman aristocrats
Mail Online - Updated 10/10/13, By Simon Tomlinson and William Turvill
Law and order: Scholar Joseph Atwill asserts that Christianity did not start as a religion, but was instead created as a sophisticated propaganda tool to pacify subjects of the Roman Empire
- Joseph Atwill says Romans 'used Christ as propaganda to pacify subjects'
- Made 'discovery' while reading only surviving account of 1st-century Judea
- Claims dozens of hidden parallels between Emperor TItus Flavius and Jesus
- He said: 'Biography of Jesus is constructed, tip to stern, on prior stories'
- The claims were dismissed by bible academic James Crossley, who compared Mr Atwill's work to that of author Dan Brown
He says he noticed a pattern forming when he was studying the only surviving account of first-century Judea, which he claims contains dozens of parallels between the life of a Roman emperor and that of Jesus in the New Testament.
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