Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera. Pantera-Grabstein (links im Bild) Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera (* um 22 v. Chr. in Sidon; † um 40 nahe dem heutigen Bingerbrück) war ein römischer Auxiliarsoldat, der sich in Germanien zur Ruhe setzte und dessen Grabmal im 19. Jahrhundert gefunden wurde. Er wird zuweilen mit der Panthera-Legende über die angebliche Abstammung von Jesus von Nazaret von einem römischen Soldaten in Verbindung gebracht. Leben[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten] Sämtliche gesicherten biographischen Informationen über Pantera stammen von seinem Grabstein, der im Jahre 1859 beim Bau einer Bahnstrecke in Bingerbrück entdeckt wurde.[1] Hier befand sich eine der Nekropolen des römischen Bingium, in der zahlreiche Grabstelen von Soldaten gefunden wurden.
Ein Relief, das den größten Teil der Grabstele einnimmt, zeigt den Verstorbenen in leicht unterlebensgroßer Darstellung, stehend und in Uniform. Unterhalb des Reliefs befindet sich eine Inschrift[2], die den Lebenslauf Panteras beinhaltet: Sidonia ann(orum) LXII. Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera. Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera - the Father of Jesus. In the opening sentence of a New Testament parable, Jesus stated: A man of noble birth was on a long journey abroad, to have himself appointed king, and return.
(Luke 19:12) Herein lies part of a profound Gospel truth revealing the substance of historical information that the church has strived for 2000 years to conceal. In this tale of long ago misconceptions and mistaken identities must be clarified so that the original story may be seen to rest upon a true and sure foundation. For this purpose we begin with the examination of church writings purporting to record the birth of Jesus Christ. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke stated that Jesus Christ was the first born of Mary and Joseph and he had four younger brothers and at least two sisters (Mark 6:3). This conclusion originally stemmed from the Gospel of James (the Protevanglium) that related to the age of Joseph at the birth of Jesus.
Joseph returned to Galilee with the intention of marrying Mary. The evidence of the Rabbis. The “Jesus son of Panthera” Traditions | TaborBlog. Predictably one of the more controversial topics in my book The Jesus Dynasty is my discussion in chapter 3 titled “An Unnamed Father of Jesus?” In which I treat the “Jesus son of Pantera/Pantira” traditions. The topic has generated more than one sensational headline as well as lots of disdainful treatment, particularly from evangelical Christian readers and reviewers. As my colleague Prof. Ben Witherington dismissively phrased it in his four-part 28 page single-spaced Blog review of my book, “Tabor trots out for us the shop-worn tale of Mary being impregnated by a Roman soldier named Pantera” (Witherington on Tabor’s Jesus Dynasty) The topic is as controversial as it is complex. My own position is that Jesus’ biological father remains unknown but is unlikely Joseph, husband of Mary. This puts me in an odd position of partial agreement with Christians who take the virgin conception/birth story literally and would likewise hold that Joseph was not the father of Jesus. 2. 3.
More to come… The Serpent and the Dove. Some palaeontologists have speculated that people in the Stone Age were unaware that the sex act produced childbirth. So women suddenly producing children would be seen as a wondrous miracle. They also went on to imagine that when men realized this role in conception, he no longer worshipped women as magical beings and took over the role of Creator himself. To support this theory we do find in Ancient Egypt that the God Atum created the world in a act of masturbation. The problem is that we do find the sexual act portrayed in Stone-Age art.
Also the numbers 13 and 9 are important numbers in cave art. Christianity is a patriarchal tradition so the mysteries of sexuality and the role of the mother/Goddess were all but eradicated from the Western spiritual psyche. The affects of this are obvious even today with our Western hang ups over sexuality. Some Christian women, as late as the 20th century would go to priests for a cleansing ritual, to clean them of the "sin" of childbirth. James Ossuary. The James Ossuary is a 1st century chalk box that was used for containing the bones of the dead.
The Aramaic inscription: Ya'akov bar-Yosef akhui diYeshua (English translation: "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus") is cut into one side of the box. The inscription is considered significant because, if genuine, it might provide archeological evidence of Jesus of Nazareth.[1] The existence of the ossuary was announced at an October 21, 2002 Washington press conference co-hosted by the Discovery Channel and the Biblical Archaeology Society.
The owner of the ossuary is Oded Golan, an Israeli engineer and antiquities collector.[2] The initial translation of the inscription was done by André Lemaire, a Semitic epigrapher, whose article claiming that the ossuary and its inscription were authentic was published in the November/December 2002 Biblical Archaeology Review.[3][4] Authenticity of the inscription has been challenged. Significance[edit] Scholarly analysis[edit] According to Dr.