Kryvelev: Du sens des evangiles ("The sense of the Gospels")

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Giuseppe
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Kryvelev: Du sens des evangiles ("The sense of the Gospels")

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I am reading this book:
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It is polemical insofar it is divulgative. But it gives some original idea that is typical of the his author (a Soviet scholar/ideologue).

I mean the idea that the euhemerization of the celestial Christ of the early Christians (who were Jews of the Diaspora, not Jews living in Israel) happened when from Israel, especially about 70 CE, some rumors and hearsay came about the birth and/or the crucifixion of the "Messiah". Only, these recent chronicles from Israel about real historical events were interpreted by the Christians as real echoes of the death of the Messiah (the popular equivalent of what they knew already by revelations and visions: the mystery of the death of the Messiah, a mystery that only now was going to be known by the outsiders, given the fact of that hearsay about crucified Messiahs). As the logic goes: If even the outsiders were going to be informed about the death of the Messiah by mere hearsay coming from Judea, how much more "real" knowledge the insiders themselves had about the real circumstances of that death? And how much more "right" to tell (only now: publicly) their version of the story?

Their imagination did the rest.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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