¿Quién fue Publius Lentilius?

Question

He visto que han usado a esta persona aquí en Respuestas como referencia para probar la existencia de Jesús. Quién fue? Alguien me podría proporcionar las fuentes para leer sobre el?

Answer 1

Ya me he topado con mensajes en el cual usan las supuestas cartas de Publius Lentulus para justificar la existencia de Jesús.

Sin embargo, como ya mencionaron anteriormente, éste es un personaje inventado (aunque discutible su existencia) para sustentar una creencia. Es importante mencionar que, actualmente, la iglesia católica rechaza la autenticidad de este personaje y que las supuestas cartas sean contemporáneas a la época en que supuestamente vivió Jesús (al menos sobre las cartas, hay certeza de que son falsas y se consideran dentro de los textos apócrifos). Ésto no es muy diferente al caso de la llamada "Donación de Constantino" el cual se uso un documento falso para reconocer al Papa como el máximo soberano del imperio romano y que, siglos después de que la iglesia lo usara para su propio beneficio, se comprobara que era falso.

El hecho de que que algunas personas usen las cartas de Publius Lentilius como referencia en preguntas sobre el cristianismo responde a dos cosas: 1) ignorancia, aunque lo hagan con buenas intenciones, está mal; 2) simplemente una falta de ética al usar información falsa como una herramienta de propaganda de forma desvergonzada.

Anexo liga a la enciclopedia católica (en inglés).

Suerte,

Answer 2

Como tu lo escribistes esta mal es asi.-

Publius Lentulus

Publius Lentulus is a fictitious person, said to have been Governor of Judea before Pontius, and to have written the a letter to the Roman Senate, concerning Jesus.

The letter of Lentulus is certainly apocryphal: there never was a Governor of Jerusalem; no Procurator of Judea is known to have been called Lentulus, a Roman governor would not have addressed the Senate in the way represented, but the emperor; a Roman writer would not have employed the expressions, "prophet of truth", "sons of men", "Jesus Christ". The former two are Hebrew idioms, the third is taken from the New Testament. The letter, therefore, shows us a description of our Lord such as Christian piety conceived him.

The purported letter reads, in translation:

"Lentulus, the Governor of the Jerusalemites to the Roman Senate and People, greetings. There has appeared in our times, and there still lives, a man of great power (virtue), called Jesus Christ. The people call him prophet of truth; his disciples, son of God. He raises the dead, and heals infirmities. He is a man of medium size (statura procerus, mediocris et spectabilis); he has a venerable aspect, and his beholders can both fear and love him. His hair is of the colour of the ripe hazel-nut, straight down to the ears, but below the ears wavy and curled, with a bluish and bright reflection, flowing over his shoulders. It is parted in two on the top of the head, after the pattern of the Nazarenes. His brow is smooth and vary cheerful with a face without wrinkle or spot, embellished by a slightly reddish complexion. His nose and mouth are faultless. His beard is abundant, of the colour of his hair, not long, but divided at the chin. His aspect is simple and mature, his eyes are changeable and bright. He is terrible in his reprimands, sweet and amiable in his admonitions, cheerful without loss of gravity. He was never known to laugh, but often to weep. His stature is straight, his hands and arms beautiful to behold. His conversation is grave, infrequent, and modest. He is the most beautiful among the children of men."

Different manuscripts vary from the foregoing text in several details: Ernst von Dobschűtz ("Christusbilder", Leipzig, 1899) enumerates the manuscripts and gives an "apparatus criticus" .

The letter was first printed in the "Life of Christ" by Ludolph the Carthusian (Cologne, 1474), and in the "Introduction to the works of St. Anselm" (Nuremberg, 1491). But it is neither the work of St. Anselm nor of Ludolph. According to the manuscript of Jena, a certain Giacomo Colonna found the letter in 1421 in an ancient Roman document sent to Rome from Constantinople. It must be of Greek origin, and translated into Latin during the thirteenth or fourteenth century, though it received its present form at the hands of a humanist of the fifteenth or sixteenth century.

The description agrees with the so-called Abgar picture of our Lord; it also agrees with the portrait of Jesus Christ drawn by Nicephorus, St. John Damascene, and the Book of Painters (of Mt. Athos). Munter ("Die Sinnbilder und Kunstvorstellungen der alten Christen", Altona 1825, p. 9) believes he can trace the letter down to the time of Diocletian; but this is not generally admitted.

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia.

Answer 3

OTRO INVENTO para sustentar l agran mentira de muchas religiones...