Is this where the Gospel writers got the idea for the story?
Vespasian is also said to have cured a leper.
It seems to me that the individual Gospel stories were cobbled together from the Flavian household, especially the stories of Josephus Flavius, Wars of The Jews and Antiquities of the Jews.
In one story from Josephus, three men are crucified. Josephus pleads with Titus to spare them. Titus allows it and Josephus takes the three down from the crucifixes. One of them survives, one of only two people known to have survived crucifixion, and I'm not including the fictional Jesus.
The story appears to be the inspiration for the Joseph of Arimathea sequence in the Gospels.
Thoughts?
2007-06-06 02:22:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
capitalctu, it seems that you are mixed up. Josephus was a Galilean general in the First Jewish Revolt, captured by Titus in 68 CE at the start of the war, sent to Rome and accepted as a member of the Flavian house. He wrote his books in the 70s-80s, before any known copies of the Gospels surfaced.
2007-06-06 02:30:08 · update #1
*crickets*
.......*Christian Heads exploding*
2007-06-06 02:25:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It seems to me that you're mixed up. The gospel record was written a century before Josephus was born.
2007-06-06 02:27:22 · answer #2 · answered by capitalctu 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you're not talking about the historian, then yeah, this guy could have been the inspiration.
2007-06-06 02:40:08 · answer #3 · answered by Dylan H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe he was eating fetuses and spat stem cells in their eye..
2007-06-06 02:27:56 · answer #4 · answered by billthakat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your story is plagiarism of the holy bible only twisted to suit you...
2007-06-06 02:26:12 · answer #5 · answered by Redeemed 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋