FLAVIAN HYPOTHESIS

"It was only after the rise of the Flavians that we Romans believed in such stories."
Tacitus, Histories I. 10

or
Cliff's Speculation on the Roman Creation of Christianity

An Independent Study and Sourcebook


Beware, the following is nearly fiction...
Roman Imperial Propaganda Office


Preface to The Gospels after Josephus

Outline for a Seminar: The Gospels after Josephus



Cliff Carrington


THE GOSPELS AFTER JOSEPHUS: Table of Contents:

Introduction (page 1)

Introduction (page 2)
  • Flavian Synoptics - Oracles for Vespasian
Introduction (page 3)
  • Josephus as Official History
  • Josephus and Paul as Roman agents
Gospels: Page 1
  • Introductions of Contra Apion I & II and Luke's Two Works
  • The 15 Jesuses in Josephus
  • Star over Jerusalem and the Star of Bethlehem
  • The Census and the Birth of Jesus
  • Young Josephus and Jesus with the priests
  • Bannus the Baptist
  • John the Baptist in Josephus and the Synoptics
Gospels: Page 2
  • Sermon on the Mount?
  • Gerasene Swine
  • Parable of the Vineyard
  • Pilate's Character
Gospels: Page 3
  • Temple Riot
  • Cleansing the Den of Robbers
  • I Too Am Under Authority
  • Barabbas
  • Crucifixion of three men and the survival of one
  • The Resurrection
  • Portents of the destruction of the Temple. "Woe to..." passages
Acts
  • Shekhinah and Spirit of Pentacost
  • The Nazarite's Vow
  • Herod's Death
  • Theudas and Judas
  • Egyptian Bandit
  • Paul's Assassins, Felix and the Sicarii
  • Paul as Roman Agent
  • Stoning of Stephen/James


EXTRA NOTES FOR THE FLAVIAN WORK

Extras 1

Extras 2

Extras 3

ARTICLES

Gophna to Galilee The Bridge Between Jewish and Christian Beginnings.
Published in "Gesher", Vol. 2 No. 3, October, 2000.

Nero’s Fire and the Christian Persecution?

The Capernaum Swine.

The Perigrinations of Paul
Published in the "Journal of Higher Criticism", 7/2 (Fall 2000).

A Defence of Mary Magdalene.

FLAVIANS, CELTS & CHRISTIANS
A Study of the Earliest Christianity in the British Isles. Comparing Bede and Monmouth, with Tacitus and Suetonius.

With permission of the author, Wayne William Blakeley B.A.(Hum)., B.Theol., Dip.Ed.

Published in the "Journal of Higher Criticism", 7/2 (Fall 2000).

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