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Historicity! Were Jesus and Paul Hereditary Jews or The offspring of Migrant Pagans?
Were Jesus and Paul Hereditary Jew, and was Paul from Pagan parentage born in Gischala Northern Galilee, and not Tarsus, in Cilicia, Asia Minor? On the subject of Jewishness within the lands of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, extinct from 559 BCE, we find its history telling another story. However, this endeavour has been solely on the history of Jesus and Paul. The more we read the history of Israel, the more we see the emptiness of Judaism replaced by Pagan forced migrations due to the Jewish diaspora. To this day Modern Israel is still looking for the Ten Lost Tribes, missing since the Assyrian Diaspora of 721 BCE, of a people replaced by foreigners from the four corners of the then known world. A people missing for over 2,700 years! One will not find this story in the Guinness Book of Records; however, one will find it in the annals of man’s inhumanity to man.
Questions
A, was Jesus a hereditary Jew?
B, was Jesus a descendant of the 11th century King David, even if he was the biological son of Joseph?
C, was Saul aka Paul (meaning small, short, or puny) born in Tarsus?
D, did Paul belong to the Tribe of Benjamin?
When one says hereditary Jew, one means that they were descended from the land of Canaan 1,559 or more years BCE. Even the Jewish Prophets who supposedly wrote the Jewish scriptures (24 books of the Tanakh), and the Gospel writers of the New Testament, shot themselves in the foot unwittingly historically, so to say, by the fact that the diaspora conflicts and contradicts Jewish history of the man Jesus.
Because, in 721 BCE, the king of Assyria removed (diaspora) all the Israelites out of Israel, and replaced then with foreigners from other conquered lands. [24 The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities. 2 Kings 17:24]
Digressing a little, so let us go a little further back in time to 931 BCE, with the break-up of the then ancient Kingdom of Israel to the formation of two new kingdoms in its place. The new kingdom of Israel* in the north maintained the lands of the Ten Lost Tribes, and the new kingdom of Judah in the south, which was the ancient lands of the tribes of Benjamin and Judah.
The new kingdom of Israel had the Ten Tribes in 931 BCE:
Reuben, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, *Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim (son of Joseph), Manasseh (son of Joseph).
*The ancient Nappthtali tribal lands bordered the lands of the tribe of Asher to it west. With the towns of Nazareth in the south and Gischala (which is present-day Arab town of Jish far north of Israel), and the land west of the river Jordan. Or what would become the province of Galilee? Also, one has to remember that tribal people do not migrate out of their territory. Unless of war or diaspora and would always return to their homelands.
The Levi’s had no territorial lands, and they were located (shared) between the 12 tribes, so in 721 BCE the vast majority of the Levi’s were deported with the rest of the ten tribes to the four corners of the Assyrian empire. See 2 Kings 17:24 above!
Leaving the rest of the diminished Levi’s in the southern kingdom of Judah along with the remaining two tribes, Judah and Benjamin. Some commentators are probably saying, well Jesus belonged to the tribe of Judah and little man Paul belonged to the tribe of Benjamin. That is if one believes in the Christian Bible over Jewish tradition, and forgetting the diaspora, which is on record in the Bible and Chronology of Israel for 721 BCE. However, the story is not over as the kingdom of Judah was safe at the time stated, but history was advancing and by 599 BCE (122 years later) Judah fell and had the same fate as Israel in the north. (599 BCE Without the Levites the daily sacrifice came to an end this year. This was the first time it happened in Jerusalem. Israel’s Chronology for year 599)
Also, the 1st Temple was destroyed in 586 BCE during the Babylonian occupation by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. In 583 BCE saw the final deportation of Jews to Babylon. Ibid for 583
So the Tribe of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the Levi’s were deported to Babylon. The land of Judah was then repopulated with foreigners to replace the two tribes and Levi’s. Many scholars state that many Jews fled to Egypt, we know from the story of the Septuagint, that there was a substantial population of exile Greek-speaking Jews at the time.
The kingdom of Judah was left only with the poor ones (2 Kings 24:14). In 538 BCE it was good news for the Jews in captivity (the tribes of Benjamin and Judah were extinct at this time) and the rest of the Levi’s. The Persian, Darius the Mede took Babylon and kills Belshazzar in October this year. Cyrus appoints Darius as the new King of Babylon (his accession period). This was well after the start of the Hebrew civil year calendar this year in 539 BC.
Well, Cyrus the Great was the one who let the “People Go,” so to speak, with his edict of repatriation in 539 BCE! However, not a lot of Jew took Cyrus up and went back to Judaea, aka “The Return to Zion.” Historians say it was a trickle. The Jews that returned settled in the Persian occupied province of Yehud Medinata. Which was the southern territory of the old kingdom of Judah? (Tribal people returning to their roots.), and having to mix with foreign people who replaced the Jews in 599 BCE Babylonian deportation (diaspora). Ezra, the Scribe led the return to Israel in 348 BCE. Ezra was shocked and grieved to find that the spiritual standards of his brethren had sunk to a dangerous low. They had fallen under the influence of the powerful Samaritans and other native tribes, had intermarried with them freely, and a young generation was growing up which was unaware of the great spiritual heritage of Israel. The children did not even know their own Hebrew tongue. See 599 BCE above on no priest as the Levi’s were all gone!
In 515 BCE the 2nd Temple was finished, however, they allowed 40 days for the dedication and sanctification of the new (Levi) priest for the new Temple service. [Israel’s Chronology for year 516BCE/515BCE]
However, the defunct northern kingdom of Israel the status quo remained, with the population of foreign emigrant still in situ and in the majority. We do not know what religion the displaced people were, but they indeed were not Jews!
Conclusion
The answers to A, B, C, and D, are NO!
Jesus
Virtually all of what we know about the historical Jesus comes from the four New Testament Gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — written several decades after Jesus’ death according to the scholarship.
Jewish scriptures say nothing on his Judaism other than to say he was a Jew, who was stoned to death and then hung for practising sorcery and enticed Israel to apostasy.[Talmud Sanhedrin 43a] Well, being charged with apostasy does not sound like he was very much into Judaism as Christians lead us to believe.
Paul
He tells us that he was a Jew born in Tarsus, was well-schooled as he studied under Gamaliel (Acts 22:30). Also, Paul claims to be a Pharisee as well as the son of a Pharisee (Acts 23:6), and was from the tribe of Benjamin, extinct from 599 BCE! What Paul claims cannot be correct! As all this information is solely from Paul. However, the Church-fathers such as Jerome (347-420) contradicts, and state that Paul was born in Gischala…when the whole province was devastated by the hand of Rome and the Jews scattered throughout the world, they were moved to Tarsus a town of Cilicia; the boy Paul inherited the lot of his parents” (St. Jerome, Commentary on Philemon, vs. 23-24).
Jerome lived in the 4th and 5th-century, and he does not mention Saul/Paul as being a Pharisee, so it begs the question—was Paul’s writings later inserted with lies about the little man?
The Church-father or other sources contradict everything we read of Paul. Church-fathers such as Eusebius of Caesarea aka Eusebius Pamphili (263-339), Epiphanius (c. 310-403) and Jerome (347-c. 420) and the Jewish/Israel Chronology tell other storeys.
The scholar Hillar writing on Epiphanius who was writing on the Gospel of the Ebionites and Paul, wrote: Eusebius maintains that the Ebionites rejected the Epistles of Paul and called him a “renegade” from the Law… Amongst other books they used, Epiphanius mentions the Acts of the Apostles, Ascent of James, and the Itinerary of Peter by Clement of Rome. They also attempted to “denigrate” Paul, for example, by saying that he was a pagan, with a pagan mother and father…They claimed that Paul became a proselyte because he wanted to marry the priest’s daughter. He was rejected, however, and turned against circumcision, the Sabbath, and the Law…[Marian Hillar, From the logos to Trinity: The Evolution of Religious Beliefs from Pythagoras to Tertullian, pp. 116-118, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012]
Source:
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament/New Testament
Chronology of Israel
Biblical scholars and Church-Fathers.
What do you say?
Well, it is that time of year, so, forget your gods and enjoy yourselves and above all be Merry.
Canol gaeaf llawen i chi i gyd a’ch teulu—Merry mid-Winter Solstice to you all and your family!
To the Christians amongst you!
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd hapus i chi gyd a’ch teulu!—Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all and your family!
Cofion cynnes (warm regards)
Jero Jones
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