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Chapter 12  
     
1.
 In discussing Josephus (St. Luke) and his works concerning the Jewish wars, the history of Judaism and theology against the Essenes, it is easy to fall into the trap of painting him to be as evil as Paul of Tarsus.
  
2.
 Certainly Josephus (St. Luke) was fully conscious of the evil he was committing in writing fictious gospels and histories to eliminate every possible piece of evidence concerning the Nazarenes and the Gnostic message of Jesus, but he remained entirely a scholar and writer.
  
3.
 In contrast, Paul of Tarsus was a cold blooded serial killer who specialized in the murder of the most important members of the family of Jesus, including Jesus himself. It was under the crusades and the excavation work of the Temple foundations that the Templers actually found the head of Jesus that the House of Ananus had hidden secretly as a historic trophy.
  
4.
 Paul of Tarsus offered no redeeming features or consideration to Judaism, other than agreeing to take all the blame himself, thereby saving the High Priests and Josephus (St. Luke) from beheading.
  
5.
 In contrast, Josephus is the man responsible for saving John the Baptist and the remaining scribes of Hillel- of merging Essene thought with Pharisee thought to create Rabbinical Judaism- a wonderful, rich and honorable religion with none of the double standards of the Sadducees and even Pharisees of the past.
  
6.
 There can be no question that if not for Josephus, Judaism would in have in all probability have ended soon after 70 CE was we know it. Instead, he helped it grow into something greater than at any time in its past.
  
7.
 For that, Josephus (St. Luke) shows some redeeming qualities of his soul.
  
8.
 Similarly, Josephus could have made the trial of Jesus more difficult to understand thereby making the understanding of whether he died or survived more difficult to determine.
  
9.
 As he finally edited the synoptic gospels, it is clear that the Sandhedrin had no power to have Jesus executed and further that Jesus was subject to a Roman trial in the Hall of Judgment under Pontius Pilate.
  
10.
 Here Josephus (St. Luke) gives the clear clues to any person half as intelligent as he was- that Jesus was clearly a full Roman citizen. Given that Romans were forbidden by law to be scourged, or crucified, Josephus is also inviting us to see the original stories by Paul of Tarsus for what they are- embellishments.
  
11.
 By law, Pontius Pilate was obliged to have Jesus beheaded for treason, not crucified. However, it is impossible to fake a beheading. But in ordering a crucifixion of a Roman citizen of noble birth, Pontius Pilate was effectively ending his diplomatic career on the spot.
  
12.
 It is no coincidence then that the same year 36 CE that Jesus was allegedly crucified, Pilate was recalled to Rome, admonished and sent into disgrace and exile.
  
13.
 Now if Christian scholars still want to maintain the elaborate lies of two millennia they may do so. But Josephus (St. Luke) still gives enough clues to the intelligent to know that Christianity is a fabrication.
  
14.
 A complex man was Josephus, both as himself, as St. Luke, as the son of a Jewish High priest and the architect of Christian scripture.
  
15.
 Around 70, Josephus divorced his first wife and married a Jewish woman from Alexandria by whom he had two children: a son Flavius Hyrcanus and a second child, about whom nothing is known.
 
16.
 Around 75, he again divorced and, by a third marriage, produced two more sons, Flavius Justus and Simonides Agrippa.
  
17.
 We are told that Josephus was married three times, first to an unknown woman he divorced around 70 CE. There is no indication from this first marriage that any children survived.
 
18.
 In the same year of 70 CE, it is alleged that Josephus married a Jewish woman of noble birth from the house of Andreas from Alexandria with whom he moved to Cyrene (Cyrenaica) in north Libya and with whom he had two sons – Lucius and Hyrcanus. Lucius (also known as Lukuas and St Lucius), went on to become the first official Bishop of Cyrene and with an intense hatred of the Greeks would lead the 1st great Christian revolt of (115—117) known as the The Kitos War.
  
19.
 The only problem with the date of 70 CE is that Josephus was by then in his mid fifties and still in the service of Titus, writing he did return from Jerusalem with Titus inh 71 CE.  
20.
 A more realistic scenario is that during the voyages with Paul of Tarsus around 51/52 CE when the first Christian bishop was appointed in Alexandria, Josephus (St. Luke) met and wed his first wife.  
21.
 She probably then did travel with Josephus and upon his arrest in 62 CE almost certainly fled back to Alexandria and then to Cyrene with his two sons.  
22.
 It is also recorded that Josephus then left his wife around 75 CE and moved to around Thebes in Greece, re-married and had two more sons, Flavius Justus and Simonides Agrippa. It is legend that it is around Thebes that Josephus died sometime around 100 to 112 CE.
  
23.
 What is crucially important regarding the alleged names of the sons of Flavius Josephus is that one is clearly Roman, but contradicting the naming convention of the day and the second is Sadducean, but more typical of late Herodian dynasty and not one that would have been made by an esteemed official biographer to the Flavian Emperors.  
24.
 It must be emphasized that the fact Josephus (St. Luke) was released at all in 75 CE means two things. He was highly regarded and almost certainly had been made a noble.  
25.
 That Josephus changed his name to Roman noble conventions means the name ascribed to his second son is almost certainly a fraud. It also means the name of his first son was deliberately changed.  
26.
 The proper name of the first son of the second marriage is more likely to be Flavius Josephus Justus, or praenomen (given name), nomen (name of the clan) and cognomen (name of family line within the clan).  
27.
 Flavius Josephus (St. Luke) would have been his proper name implying that the Emperors adopted Josephus into their own greater clan.  
28.
 His second son would have been called at least Flavius Josephus, but for his first name.  
29.
 Before Josephus (St. Luke) died, there is also strong evidence to suggest that he recanted the ficticious scriptures and lies he had told regarding the formation of Christianity on behalf of his family (the House of Ananus) and St. Paul.  
30.
 This change of heart might also explain his time in Greece and the survival of a number of the few original gnostic manuscripts of the Apostles.  
31.
 The change in heart of Josephus St. Luke upon the religion he largely help make with Paul of Tarsus seemed to redouble the efforts of his family to forge ahead, especially his son St. Lucius and his death and change of mind against christianity might have had a major impact upon the The Kitos War.  
32.
 In turn, this intense hatred towards the Greeks and education along with the words of St. Paul were to be a defining element of the "anti-knowledge" philosophy of Christianity for its entire existence.  
33.
 A controversial theory places the proper name of the second son of Flavius Josephus being Flavius Josephus Valentinus, or Valentinus, the famous Gnostic philosopher so hated with a single minded passion by the early christian scholars.  
34.
 This would make the battle between Gnosticism and early christian not only a battle between the true faith of Jesus and the false faith of Paul, but a battle between the sons of St. Luke over his fathers early foundation of christianity and recant in preference for Gnosticism later in life.  

 
 
 

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