Judas Iscariot

Judas, Jesus and Rome

The New Testament portrays Jesus Christ as a pro-Rome pacifist - albeit harboring some passive-aggressive bipolar mannerisms, whereas the Old Testament historical figure Judas Maccabee was a Jewish warrior and a hero. I know Jesus was said to have been betrayed by Judas Iscariot, not Judas Maccabee, whom had been long-deceased before Jesus was born, but a deeper point needs to be revealed, and as such, a reference to the earlier Maccabean Judas had to be made. As explained here, "...the significance of one being remembered is revealed in the act of Damnatio memoriae - that is, the condemning to oblivion of the memory of rivals, tyrants and 'heretics', an act that was commonplace throughout antiquity." What better way to damn the memory of someone whom you can not erase outright, and to demoralize those who view such a person as a hero, than to vilify that person's name? In the first century AD, Judas was an extremely common name among Jewish males due to it being the name of the renowned Jewish hero Judas Maccabeus. Today there are millions of people named after the (Flavian-sanctioned) New Testament disciples, prophets and saints - yet how many people named Judas can you think of today?

The cause and effect is clearly established: the character Judas Iscariot was named so in order to damn the memory of Judas Maccabeus through assimilation and thus assassination of that for which the name Judas truly stands. The name Judas - itself being the Greek derivative of the Jewish Judah - is used in the New Testament disparagingly as an antisemitic generalization of the term Jude in order to slur the Judaic people as being treacherous. This was by no mistake or mere coincidence - nor did it bare any true merit, and it has caused immense damage to Jews worldwide ever since. Therefore the New Testament must be viewed for what it really is in order to truly understand the tacit meaning behind supposedly literal acts.

There is an adage that basically states that, controlling the masses is like growing mushrooms: all one needs to do is to ''feed them bullshit and keep them in the dark''. Governments have been doing this to populaces for thousands of years, and it is a fact that the Romans did such throughout their empires - including during their first century AD occupation of the Levant. Of course, they could not always do such outright: one such case is the story of the founding of Rome by Remus and Romulus. But once the leaders or perspective leaders of a populace want to dissolve, assimilate or overtake a pre-existing tradition or tenet that the populace already holds dear, the government has several options: it can either:

1. Vilify that pre-established tenet or tradition outright - perhaps even by force - which is dangerous as it may lead to rejection and revolt;
2. Tacitly vilify the source while assimilating that same source for the government's own benefit;
3. Pretend to be one with the source while assuming all benefits that derive from such until it is strong enough to overtake/usurp the source outright.

All three of these modus operandi were utilized in first century Rome regarding the creation of Christianity, and all three are still being used by governments around the globe to this very day. Add in a good measure of fear of the unknown, and one has created a cult disguised as legitimate governance.

The two main enforcement branches of any government are the military and the propagandists. These are the only two factions that can assure the obedience of the masses to some degree, and they work in complete unison. If the media cannot sway the masses to back the government's narratives with propaganda, then surely the military can do so with martial law, military campaigns and/or pandemics. In the case of ancient Rome, the Roman armies were spread extremely thin across three continents and were weary of the prolonged fighting in the Levant that had gone on for decades. The Jews had proven for some time to be problematic to rule over. As such, the emperors of the latter decades of the first century AD - the Flavians - whom were astute regarding the value of propaganda and whom fashioned themselves as living deities - searched for a means of wiping out Jewish messianic beliefs of a coming savior of the Jewish peoples whom would reclaim Judea for the Jews. The Flavians found the solution to their problem in the rewriting of the traditions of the Apostles by Romanized Jews and in the Rome-sanctioned historical writings that were fabricated by propagandists such as Flavius Josephus.

The main motive that Rome had for creating Christianity, albeit time has revealed it to be a naive failure, was to corrupt Judaism so that the Jews would never again be able to assume the guardianship of Judaic Messianic tradition and thus dominion over Judea. So long as a large percentage of Jews awaited their messiah, the Jewish people were largely ungovernable by outsiders. The Jewish revolt against Seleucid (Greek) rule in the first century BC proved such. When Rome came into the Levant as occupiers in the late first century BC, they were likewise made aware of such first-hand. By the time that the Gospels were written down, Rome had faced decades of revolts and uprisings in Judea, leading to the destruction of much of the Jewish nation, guerrilla warfare, savage battles, horrendous strife, the destruction of the Jewish capitol and the Temple, and the massacre and diaspora of the Jews.

The Jews had proven time and time again over the course of some two centuries to simply be ungovernable by foreign occupiers, and the Romans wanted an easy-to-govern province in the Levant. Rome realized that so long as the Jews had control over the Jewish masses through their temples and beliefs, that a Roman province in the Levant would never be able to peacefully exist. Enter the Flavian butchers and the propagandists masquerading as emperors, apostles and historians...

Iscariot

Judas was sometimes referred to as "the son of Simon" (John 6:71 ; John 13:2 John 13:26). The term Simon itself is comprised of two parts: SI from the Egyptian SA which means ''Son'' and MON, which means ''Man''. When written together as Simon, the term means ''Son (of) Man''. As such, when John calls Judas ''the son of Simon'', he is referring to him as ''the Son of (the) Son (of) Man''.

The name Iscariot has received many conjectural interpretations over time. The Hebrews today define Judas' surname - Iscariot - as meaning ''Man of the City of Kerioth'' - Kerioth once being a town in Judea. However, although Jews have sometimes taken surnames identifying themselves with their geographic locations, they did not flow in the context afforded to the term Iscariot if such was meant to indicate from whence Judas came. Basically, if someone named David was from a town called Trenton, his name and surname would be written as "David of Trenton", not "David, Man of Trenton" as his first name has already determined his gender. The context afforded to Judas simply does not flow well within Judaic custom. Further, the assimilation of Iscariot with the Hebrew term for Man (Ish) is problematic in the absence of an h in the surname Is-cariot because doing so both convolutes its true meaning and it likewise implies that an unknown variable is at play by the use of the term. Had Iscariot been written as Ishcariot, the allusion to him being ''from a certain place'' could possibly be surmised: however, with the absence of the h, the term simply makes no sense. One would think that, had the writers of the Gospels truly intended to do the will of the Almighty, they would have made certain that they not misspell the name of the betrayer of His Son.

If the term Iscariot was meant to designate where Judas had come from, keeping in mind that Jesus spent his time concentrated in and around Galilee, it is worth realizing that although there was a town by the name of Kerioth in southern Israel at the time of Joshua which was located quite some distance from Galilee, by the time of Jesus some 1,2000 years later, their is no reference to the existence of such a town remaining. A second location called Kerioth did exist roughly around the time of Jesus, but it was located in the country of Moab, far from Galilee and as such, far from the region where Jesus spent his time. the idea that Judas would have traveled so comparatively far to become a disciple of John and then Jesus without a forethought regarding his motive for doing such is inconceivable. Simply stated, it is extremely improbable that Judas's last name is an identifier of where he came from, and if by some remote chance it is such, then there would have had to have been a specific reason for Judas to travel so far in order to assume the role as a disciple of John and then Jesus, that was unknown to the Roman scribes who wrote the Gospels.

Another hypothesis regarding the term Iscariot is that it may derive from the Greek-Aramaic term Iskarioutha, which means to choke or constrict, as Judas was said by one apostle to have hanged himself. If such were the case, it would show that Judas' original surname was not Iscariot, and that he was later ''surnamed'' such after his death, which leads one to wonder: if Judas had betrayed Jesus, why would the Gospel writers omit his true surname in favor of a description of how he died? Everyone in the English-speaking world over the age of ten with an IQ over 80 knows that the person who allegedly murdered John F Kennedy was named Lee Harvey Oswald - yet for what reason did the Gospels writers chose to intentionally omit the real surname of the assassin who allegedly murdered their messiah in favor of making a macabre allusion to his method of dying? Perhaps they did such in order to send a message to future generations of Jewish zealots regarding betraying the powers that be, for if we are to take the betrayal of Judas as literal history, there would be no reason to hint at the manner of Judas' death because it would have been a one time event: but if it were in reality an allusion to the fate of those whom might ''betray'' the Romans in the future, its inclusion in the Gospels as a veiled threat regarding the fates of any future zealots would make perfect sense.

The Oxford Reference reveals another more compelling definition of the term Iscariot, pointing out that "there is a suggestion in one ancient manuscript which connects it (Iscariot) with the Latin sicarius, which could imply that Judas was one of the dagger-men, that is the Zealots, as they were later known, nationalists who favored armed rebellion against the Romans." This, of course, is a reference to the Sicarii - the first century AD parallel to the Maccabees of the first century BC. The Romans of the first century AD held a deep hatred for the Sicarii, just as their Greek predecessors held for the earlier Jewish Maccabees. The Sicarii, in turn, viewed the Maccabees as their heroes, ancestral role models and spiritual mentors and viewed the Romans of the first century AD as being as vulgar and parasitic to them, as the Greeks of the first and second centuries BC were in the eyes of the Maccabees. The problem with this, is that the Gospels and the history (propaganda) of the first century Levant was sanctioned, funded and written by the Romans, not by the Sicarii or the Maccabees - nor by any free Jews for that matter. All Jewish writers of the first century AD - and especially after the diaspora - had become subjects of the Roman Empire. Whereas it may have been in their hearts to write on behalf of their Jewish kindred, it was in their minds that if they did not do so in a pro-Roman light, that they would have been executed and the works would have been destroyed. That pro-Roman light from the onset of the rise of the Flavians, dictated that the Roman rulers be perceived as Gods and that their subjects were either allies or betrayers of the divine Roman order.

Sidenote: The term Maccabee was assimilated with the term "Hammer" much as the Sicarii were assimilated with the term "Dagger". This would point to the realization that just as these ''Hammers'' were named after the Maccabees, likewise, these ''daggers'' might have been named after someone as well: perhaps Zechariah? 

The Vilification of Judas, Judaism and the Jews

In an essay presented by John Shelby Spong, (video) the author explains that the Gospel of Matthew fabricated the character of Judas in order to shift the blame for the killing of Christ from the Romans to the Jews. For the sake of full disclosure, while I do not agree with some of Spong's ''culturally progressive'' viewpoints on certain things, it needs to be realized that he was by no means an atheist, nor was he hostile towards Christianity. Spong was ordained into the Episcopal priesthood in 1955 and served as a Bishop from 1979 to 2000. Nonetheless, according to Spong, ''Judas was a fictional character fabricated by the early Christian Church (under Flavian rule) at the close of the first century AD for sole purpose of shifting the blame for Jesus’ murder away from the Romans and onto the Jewish people''. Simply put, in Rome's eyes, Rome didn't kill Jesus - nor did they destroy Judea, plunder and level its Temple, raze its capitol, massacre and disperse its inhabitants: the Jews did so by opposing Roman occupation.

At the time of the Jewish rebellion against Roman occupation in 66 AD, there was no betrayer of Christ named Judas present in the Christian narrative. In the Pauline Epistles, which are the earliest New Testament writings and are based on what Jesus' disciples spoke to Paul, there is not one overt mention of anyone betraying Jesus with the exception of a single covert reference where the word paradito appears. Paradito is a Greek term which could mean ''betrayal'', but could also mean ''handed over'' or ''arrested''. In these earliest writings there is no mention of whom might have betrayed, handed over or arrested Jesus on behalf of the Romans. Simply stated, the latter Roman-sanctioned scribes used the term ''Judas Iscariot'' to vilify the Jewish rebels and thus the Jewish people as a whole as the betrayers of Jesus and in the process ruined the memory of the Jewish hero Judas Maccabeus. 

While little is known of Judas before he became a ''disciple of Jesus'', it is claimed that he was first a disciple of John the Baptist. The Antisemitic stereotype of Jews supposedly being immoral and greedy was manufactured by the Rome-sanctioned Gospel authors and is perpetuated by the Catholic Church's claim that Judas was a peasant whom was entrusted with the station of treasurer among Jesus' disciples (John 12:6 ; 13:29) which led to him becoming corrupted by greed to the point that he betrayed his own nation and Messiah, which is interesting in that in reality the Jewish ''historian'' (Flavian propagandist) Flavius Josephus did to his own people, exactly what Judas was accused of doing to Jesus. 

In the mindset of a Roman-centrist scribe, whether they be a Flavian historian or a Roman-sanctioned Gospel author, the betrayal of Jesus by Judas can be seen as an actual reference to the occupation and destruction of Judea by the Romans. The Roman empire at the time that the Gospels were written was ruled by the Flavians, whom had reintroduced the Imperial Cult to Rome which deified the rulers of the Empire and as such sold its oppression of others as being the divinely inspired will of God. As such, the Flavian empire would have likewise assumed the role of the Judaic Messiah and as such, presented its rulers as the Gods/Sons of God of Israel in accordance to the Roman mindset of those days. It is a damning point to make, that although many Flavian family members are credited by the Catholic Church as being originators and upholders of the Christian faith - one even being sanctified as the Patriarch of Constantinople and another being the Bishop of Antioch, for example, not one of those Flavian ''Christians'' ever called for the repatriation of the Jewish people back to their homeland despite their supposed faith in Jesus Christ being the fulfillment of Judaic prophecy.

Judas Epitomized Judah Through Roman Eyes

The Gospels having been written by Roman sanctioned scribes, the story of the betrayal of ''Christ'' by ''Judas'' was synonymous with the Jewish Revolt to Roman rule: the ''peasant'' Jewish people (collectively, ''Judas'') were - through Roman eyes - merely being entrusted by Rome with maintaining the land of Judea on behalf of Rome (making the Jews the treasurers - not the true beneficiaries - of their own land), and the revolt of 66 AD as being a betrayal by Judah (''Judas'') - an attempt to overthrow the ''God-ordained'' Roman occupation of Judea. The crucifixion itself was synonymous with the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple, and the suicide of Judas was synonymous with the massacre at Masada in 73 AD, where many of the Sicarii committed suicide rather than surrendering to the Romans. In Jewish eyes, for good reason, the Romans were invaders, occupiers and oppressors, whereas in Roman eyes, the Romans were the divinely sanctioned landlords of Judea and as such the Jewish rebels were betrayers of the will of God.

The Death of Judas

Keeping in mind that the first century AD Christian Gospels were initially intended as a means of controlling the post-Diasporic Jews through invalidating their messianic beliefs, Matthew paints a portrait of Judas as being a treacherous, suicidal confidante of Jesus, whereas Luke makes him appear as the treacherous and un-repentenant beneficiary of Christ. Matthew (27:3-10) was most likely plagiarized from the story of Ahithophel in 2 Samuel 15-17. Matthew claims that after having betrayed Jesus, Judas repented by throwing the thirty bits of silver he received for betraying him at the priests at the temple and then hanging himself.

Luke, however, speaks of Judas in an altogether different light, most likely drawing from the Book of Tobit (11:18 and 14:10) as a reference to Judas being the New testament Christ's beneficiary-antagonist, much like Nadab (''Judas'') being the ungrateful beneficiary (nephew) of the Assyrian Chancellor Ahiqar (Titus Flavius in the role of the Christ). In the case of Nadab, after attempting to usurp his uncle Ahiqar, the un-remorseful Nadab is placed in a dungeon where he meets his demise by his body bursting apart and his bowels gushing out. In Luke's account, much like the story of Nadab, Judas the beneficiary was not repentant: he used his ill-gotten silver coins to buy a field and, having fallen head-first in the same field, his body burst apart and his bowels gushed out.

Was Judas the author of the Revelation of the Mystery of the Cross? 

The Gospel of Judas and the Light it Sheds on the Other Gospels

The Gospel of Judas not only proves the other Gospels to be corrupt and racist propaganda orchestrated by Greek-Roman oppressors, but likewise disproves the Koran and Islam.

Authenticity confirmed by National Geographic: Scholars reveal how they scrambled to authenticate Gospel of Judas - NBC News

(Los Angeles Times, 2006) Judas Is No Traitor in Long-Lost Gospel (Los Angeles Times)

Judas Iscariot, long reviled as history’s quintessential betrayer, was actually the best friend of Jesus and turned him over to authorities only because Jesus asked him to, according to the Gospel of Judas, a long-lost document revealed Thursday. Indicating that Jesus was suicidal but could not bring himself to do the deed.

The manuscript, which scientists date to the year 300, is an account of conversations between Jesus and Judas in the last week of their lives -- conversations in which Jesus is said to have shared religious secrets not known by the other disciples. 

The document is a copy of the Gospel of Judas, written in Greek about 140 years after Jesus and Judas died. It was thought that all copies were destroyed, though references to it survived. It had been declared heretical by early church leaders because it conflicted with the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The authentication and translation of the document will produce “a short-term sensation,” said Father Donald Senior, president of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, but its “impact on the lives of ordinary believers is going to be somewhat minimal.” In other words, he is saying that Christians are too stupid to take a deeper look for themselves: arrogance and mockery.

Many biblical scholars, however, hailed the newly revealed text because of the insight it would provide into the exceptionally turbulent period when competing ideologies sought to stake their own claims to the story of Jesus, battling with oral stories and written texts until a single faction won out. The document’s publication “makes available a significant text in our cultural heritage,” said biblical scholar Marvin Meyer, director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Chapman University in Orange. “It has been saved from destruction and is now offered to the world for further examination and study.”

The current manuscript is a copy of the original Greek text translated into the Coptic language by a professional scribe in a group known as the Gnostics. Extensive analysis of the paper, ink, writing style and text indicates that the copy was made around AD 300, according to Terry Garcia of the National Geographic Society. “We are confident that this is a genuine piece of ancient Christian apocryphal literature,” he said.

The Gnostics were a sect “that emphasized knowledge [gnosis], but not the kind we think of today,” said biblical scholar Gregor Wurst of the University of Augsburg in Germany. They were interested in the spiritual knowledge of God and “the essential oneness of the inner self with God.” They considered the world a creation of lesser, inferior gods who imprisoned the inner self in a material body, a prison from which they hoped to escape. The Gospel of Judas clearly reflects this belief, which is in stark contrast to the version of Judas presented in the Bible. “He’s the good guy in this portrayal,” said Bart Ehrman, a religion professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “He’s the only apostle who understands Jesus.”

In a key passage, Jesus compares Judas with the other disciples, saying, “You will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.” By helping Jesus get rid of his flesh, it suggests, Judas will help liberate the divine being within. Several times in the text, Jesus indicates the special status of Judas: “Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom. It is possible for you to reach it, but you will grieve a great deal.” Jesus also indicates that Judas will be despised by the other disciples. “You will be cursed by the other generations -- and you will come to rule over them.” The document ends abruptly. “They [the arresting party] approached Judas and said to him: ‘What are you doing here? You are Jesus’ disciple.’ Judas answered them as they wished. And he received some money and handed him over to them.”

No mention is made of the Crucifixion or Resurrection.

The text discovery comes after scholars and even popular culture -- such as the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” and the movie “The Last Temptation of Christ” -- have reevaluated the role of the supposed betrayer. “Already, in the New Testament, there are more than a few hints that Judas was an esteemed and important part of the disciples -- a member of the inner circle,” Meyer said. Some scholars argue that the Greek word paradidomi in the original texts of the Gospels, normally translated as “betray,” actually means “to hand over,” suggesting that Judas was simply doing God’s will.

The vilification of Judas may, in fact, have been part of a well-known campaign by St. Augustine and other early Christians to vilify Jews, as exemplified by Judas. “The traditional depiction has fed the flames of anti-Semitism,” Meyer said, although the church has recently sought to root out such sentiments. Though the Gospel of Judas is clearly not part of the mainstream ideology, its publication should help that continuing reevaluation. “Hopefully, this will give us more reason to continue that discussion. 

The discussion almost didn’t take place. After the text was found, an Egyptian antiquities dealer shopped it around, asking an estimated $3 million for it. When he received no offers, he placed it in a safe-deposit box in a bank on Long Island, where it sat for 16 years. Protected by the heat and dryness of the desert, the manuscript had survived in good condition for 17 centuries. But in the bank, it began disintegrating rapidly.

When Swiss antiquities dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos purchased it in 2000, she was alarmed by its condition and handed it over to the Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art in Basel, Switzerland. They began the time-consuming and painstaking process of reassembling the estimated 1,000 pieces of the manuscript, with support from the National Geographic Society and the Waitt Institute for Historical Discovery. “Had they not intervened, it would have turned to dust” in another couple of years, Garcia said.

In addition to the Gospel of Judas, the 66-page leather-bound papyrus codex -- a book made from papyrus that has been folded and bound -- also contains a text titled “James” (also known as “The First Apocalypse of James”), a “Letter of Peter to Philip” and a fragment of a fourth text that scholars are tentatively calling “The Book of Allogenes.” Those have not been translated yet. The manuscript is about 80% complete. The rest has disintegrated or been separated from the original. When the restoration is finished, the text will be returned to Egypt for display at the Coptic Museum in Cairo.

An English translation of the manuscript was released Thursday; the Coptic version, and other information, is displayed on the National Geographic Society website. 

The Gospel of Judas (Encyclopedia Britannica)

The 1st/2nd-century Apostolic Father Papias is quoted to have given macabre details about Judas’s death, presumably to show that Gospel prophecies were literally fulfilled. His account appears in numerous legends, particularly in Coptic works, and in medieval literature. In Dante’s Inferno Judas appears in the deepest chasm of hell with Julius Caesar’s assassins, Brutus and Cassius.

Although his name subsequently became associated with traitor (a Judas) and treacherous kiss (a Judas kiss), not all depictions of Judas portrayed him as betraying Jesus. In Muslim polemic literature, Judas ceases to be a traitor; instead, he supposedly lied to the Jews in order to defend Jesus (who was not crucified). The 14th-century cosmographer al-Dimashqī maintains that Judas assumed Jesus’ likeness and was crucified in his place. The 2nd-century apocryphal Gospel of Judas, a gnostic text written in Greek, depicts him as a collaborator and close confidant of Jesus. According to the gospel—a Coptic translation from circa 300 was discovered in the 1970s and published in 2006—Judas was the only apostle who understood Jesus’ message. In the account of the gospel, during the celebration of Passover, Jesus takes Judas aside and reveals secret knowledge about God and creation to him, declaring that Judas is greater than the other Apostles. Jesus seems to instruct Judas to report him to the authorities, so that Jesus’ spiritual self may escape from the material body in which it is trapped. 

The Gospel of Judas (Wikipedia)

The Gospel contains ideas which contradicted the doctrine of the early Church. The author says that God is essentially a "luminous cloud of light" who exists in an imperishable realm. Adamas, the spiritual father of all humanity, was created in God's image and dwelt in the imperishable realm.

At the beginning of time, God created a group of angels and lower gods. Twelve angels were willed to "come into being [to] rule over chaos and the [underworld]". The angels of creation were tasked with creating a physical body for Adamas, which became known as the first man Adam. Gradually, humanity began to forget its divine origins and some of Adam's descendants (Cain and Abel) became embroiled in the world's first murder. Many humans came to think that the imperfect physical universe was the totality of creation, losing their knowledge of God and the imperishable realm.

Jesus was sent as the Son of the true God, not of one of the lesser gods. His mission was to show that salvation consists in connecting with the God within the man. Through embracing the internal God, the man can then return to the imperishable realm.

Eleven of the disciples Jesus chose to spread his message misunderstood the central tenets of his teaching. They were obsessed with the physical world of the senses. The author says that they continued to practice religious animal sacrifice, which pleased the lower gods but did not help to foster a connection with the true God. They wrongly taught that those martyred in the name of Christ would be bodily resurrected.

In contrast, Jesus is able to teach Judas the true meaning of his life, ministry and death. Mankind can be divided into two races, or groups. Those who are furnished with the immortal soul, like Judas, can come to know the God within and enter the imperishable realm when they die. Those among the same group as the other eleven disciples cannot enter the realm of God and will die both spiritually and physically at the end of their lives. As practices that are intertwined with the physical world, animal sacrifice and a communion ceremony involving "cannibalism" (the consumption of Jesus' flesh and blood) are condemned as abhorrent. The other Gospels say that Jesus had to die in order to atone for the sins of humanity. The author of the Gospel of Judas expresses the view that this sort of substitutionary justice only pleases the lower gods and angels; that the true God is gracious and does not demand any sacrifice.

Pre New Testament Parallels with the Maccabees

• The Judaic hero Judas Maccabee became the ungrateful Greek-Roman villain Judas in Roman (Greek) literature by no mistake.
• The Judaic Simon Maccabee became fused to the Greek-Roman Simon Peter - IU Ptah (Zeus/Jupiter) - as the ''Son (Si) Man (Mon)'' ''father (Pater)'' of the Roman Church.

The vast majority of the New Testament was not translated from Aramaic into Greek: the New Testament was fabricated in Greek by the Romans by manipulating Aramaic literature and fusing it to the Jewish-born Flavian sellout Josephus' histories and pseudo-histories into Roman propaganda.