Daniel T. Unterbrink: Judas of Nazareth

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Daniel T. Unterbrink is an accomplished writer with four completed works in his name. Scholars have spent years questioning aspects of the historical Jesus. How can we know what Jesus said and did when Jesus himself wrote nothing? Can we trust the Gospels, written by unknown authors 40 to 70 years after Jesus’ death? And why do other sources from the time not speak of this messianic figure known as Christ?

Drawing on the histories of Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Daniel Unterbrink contends that the “Jesus” of the Bible was actually a composite figure, a clever blend of the Jewish freedom-fighter Judas the Galilean and Paul’s divine-human Christ figure created in the middle of the first century CE. Revealing why Paul was known as a liar, enemy, and traitor in other Jewish literature, he shows that the New Testament Gospels are not transcripts of actual history but creative works of historical fiction designed to promote Paul’s Christianity and serve the interests of the fledgling Gentile Christian communities. He demonstrates how each Gospel is written in light of the success of Paul’s religion and dependent upon his later perspective.

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0:00.0	I'm going to be in all of the end. Oh, I'm not. Wherever you're listening, good morning, good afternoon or good evening.
1:09.8	This is Cliff, your host of Earth Ancientsly New Discoveries from our Planet's Distance Past.
1:17.0	It's Saturday, May 17th, and I am calling you from Oakland and it's a little overcast today and we've had a lot
1:27.2	of hot weather here but this is California and the weather changes. Today we are talking about religion as a person who was raised
1:39.3	a Protestant who constantly questioned the Bible, who is constantly in trouble with the Sunday
1:45.8	school teachers.
1:48.3	This is a fascinating subject for me, our next guest.
1:52.2	The information in the Bible is something that I question from a very
1:57.4	young person at a young age and it is thought to be historical.
2:04.0	There are references given by many people that the Jesus of Nazareth was a true person.
2:12.0	A person who lived and spoke the gospel and it was written down and it's what people focus on now. It's what churches are based on. Our guest today is Daniel
2:28.8	Unterbrink and his book is called Judas of Nazareth and this is what they say about the book
2:36.2	this is the promo matching the events depicted in the new testament with
2:40.3	historically verifiable events in Josephus history,
2:45.0	underbrink pushes the dating of Jesus back nearly a generation to revolutionary time in ancient Judea. He shows that the real historical Jesus, the physical
2:56.2	man behind the fictional stories in Paul's gospel was Judas of Galen, a messatic pretender of Torah observant revolutionary bent on overthrowing the
3:10.0	Roman government and galvanizing the Jewish people behind his vision of the coming
3:16.4	kingdom of God.
3:18.8	In the greatest cover-up of history, this teacher of 1st century Israel was replaced by the literary creation known
3:28.0	as Jesus of Nazareth.
3:30.8	Let me just tell you a little bit about our guest today.
3:34.0	Daniel T. Underbrink is the author of Judas of Gellian,
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