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The Jesus Discovery - The Bible Revealed - Posted: 15th Jun, 2010 - 6:07pm
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Adam Bradford
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What are your thoughts about this book? Do you think the author is trying to simply point out a historical discrepancy? Or is it that it is hard for people to understand how a poor, simple man like Jesus could have been able to perform the miracles he did?
QUOTE According to Adam Bradford, rather than being born in a stable to a carpenter father, Jesus was actually the son of a successful, middle class and highly intellectual architect.
It's a somewhat different version of the greatest story ever told about Jesus's life, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
In his new book, "The Jesus Discovery", Bradford also claimed that between the ages of 12 and 30 -- the so-called 'missing years' of Jesus's life for which little is known -- he was studying at religious schools and became the highest-ranking rabbi in Judea.
Bradford made the claims after analysing the Bible's original Greek and Hebrew scriptures to try to establish the truth about Christ's background.
According to him, an incorrect translation of the Greek word 'tekton' to describe the profession of Joseph, Jesus's father, is one of many mistakes that have led to a fundamental misunderstanding of Christ's character.
"While 'tekton' is usually said to mean carpenter, it more accurately means master builder or architect. As an architect, Joseph would have had a higher social status that enabled him to better educate his son," Bradford said.
Besides, in most English translations of the Bible Joseph is described as a 'just man'. But Bradford says the word 'man' is not in the original Greek text and the word translated as 'just' really means a senior religious scholar involved in the judiciary.
"If Jesus was the son of a poor itinerant carpenter with some radical ideas nobody would have been that concerned about what he said...
It's a somewhat different version of the greatest story ever told about Jesus's life, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
In his new book, "The Jesus Discovery", Bradford also claimed that between the ages of 12 and 30 -- the so-called 'missing years' of Jesus's life for which little is known -- he was studying at religious schools and became the highest-ranking rabbi in Judea.
Bradford made the claims after analysing the Bible's original Greek and Hebrew scriptures to try to establish the truth about Christ's background.
According to him, an incorrect translation of the Greek word 'tekton' to describe the profession of Joseph, Jesus's father, is one of many mistakes that have led to a fundamental misunderstanding of Christ's character.
"While 'tekton' is usually said to mean carpenter, it more accurately means master builder or architect. As an architect, Joseph would have had a higher social status that enabled him to better educate his son," Bradford said.
Besides, in most English translations of the Bible Joseph is described as a 'just man'. But Bradford says the word 'man' is not in the original Greek text and the word translated as 'just' really means a senior religious scholar involved in the judiciary.
"If Jesus was the son of a poor itinerant carpenter with some radical ideas nobody would have been that concerned about what he said...
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Name: Tim
Comments: Having read the book the main 2 points are that Joseph may well have been one of the Jewish tektons who trained the 1000 priests that Herod had build the temple, and also that the scholars who met Jesus aged 12 in the temple recognised his genius and would have recruited him for their schools. That would then explain the gap til age 30 as that is when Rabbis went public. [..]
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