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About My Research — Process and Method
And on the Later Role of Herodias
I formulated a new theory of the Christian origins that is my own. I don’t see anybody else making these same claims. I did this research, presented here, mostly between 1999 and 2001. I would not bother telling anybody else if I was not pretty confident. I invite comments.
Setting up my methodology, I expected that only the canonical New Testament would be universally accepted as valid evidence, so I limited the data I crunched mostly to the NT.
Unlike other researchers, I discovered some very obvious things:
The blood of Christ is like the pork of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Blood is dietarily unclean for Jews, as is pork. The blood of Christ would have seemed much the same to first century Jews as the pork of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. This may be hard for us to see now but in the first century it would have been extremely obvious to Jews that Paul’s Eucharist represented apostasy from Judaism.
The person whose problem got resolved by the resurrection in the gospel story was Herodias, not John the Baptist — discussed in more detail below.
An unbiased skeptical researcher would need to assume that Jesus was definitely not resurrected. Jesus stayed dead…
