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To the New Testament researchers, the Letter to the Hebrews has remained mysterious, until now. No doubt it is difficult to comprehend, though not as baffling as the Book of Revelation. The present study shows ways out of the impasse. First, the Hebrews is better read as a classical text. The conventions of the classics used in it are the clues to unravel its seeming mystery and to grasp its embedded textual meaning. Second, the sequence of related works of early Christian literature offers the possibility of intertextuality among contemporary documents. The sequence begins with Clement’s...

Romans Essenes and Sicarii: Narrative Logic of the Judaean War is the first study to analyse the strategies Josephus uses in his War narrative to communicate his intended meaning to the readers. Without mastering the logic of the Judaean War it is impossible to comprehend what Josephus is trying to say. This approach also allows the readers to speculate in a reasonable manner about the hidden strategies Nero and Vespasian could have used to co-opt the help of Josephus and his friends the captive priests in Rome.

'Paul's Cracked Mirror: An Untold Story' is an analysis of the earliest five letters of Paul that are authentically his to identify his personality. The study has led to the discovery that Paul of Tarsus was suffering from a divided self, a personality disorder known as Paranoia Querulans, or Vexatious Paranoia. The book presents the analytical data in a narrative which is both historical and imaginative as some of the classical histories used to be.Paul's personality disjunction has historically passed into the Roman, Eastern and Protestant Churches leading to their own problems of ...

"The Flavian Jewish War" is more than a history of the war Romans waged against Judaea from 69 t- 73 C.E. In the foreground it is the story of the war of brave Romans like Vespasian, Titus and Domitian and an abject rout of the Jewish insurgents. In the background, it is a five-Act Senecan Tragedy in which the heroes of history become villains of the tragedy and the villains of history turn out to be the hero-victims. This transformation is achieved by Josephus through Genres Disjunction of having two texts of diffferent genres in one work. Significantly, the Genres Disjunction is a textual...

Saint Matthew refutes Paul’s Christ includes the thesis that Matthew helped to identify the essence of Christianity by refuting Paul’s creation of Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God and divine. The book has three parts: Part One: In Chapter 1, I discuss that Matthew’s Gospel is contrarian in correcting the traditional Christian expectations placed on it. In Chapters 2, 3 and 4, Matthew is shown to reject the virginity of Mary, the resurrection of Christ and the authenticity of the Lord’s Prayer. Part Two: I have identified two background texts behind the foregrounded Gospel. ...

My first book 'The Four Fabulists: the Literary Genres of the Gospels and the Acts of Apostles' has demonstrated that nearly the whole of the content of the New Testament books is 'fictional' or 'fictitious'. 'The Divine Christ:Christian Myths, Mysteries and Magic' finds a great deal of evidence on how the Gospel writers introduced the 'fictitious' into the content of their New Testament books. In hiding the existence of myths and magic in what has been canonised as Sacred Scripture, the Christian Churches have misled their followers. They have substituted the real man, Jesus of Nazareth, ...

The Book of Revelation with a Forensic Look is first study with threefold analyses. First, it examines The Revelation's literary structure as genres disjunction. As such its debt to Greco-Roman classics and to the Judaean apocalyptic genre is identified. Second, it dissects the foreground and background texts present in a single work known as The Book of Revelation. Lastly, its authorial intent is examined. It is found to be anti-Pauline. The Book of Revelation accuses Paul of Tarsus of conniving with Nero to frame Peter and the Jewish Christians at Rome for the Great Fire of 64 CE. Paul's ...

Jesus the Ironic Christ in John’s Gospel brings to a unified whole the research begun with my doctoral thesis on the Judaean War as a narrative five-act tragedy. Like Flavius Josephus, the four evangelists used Genres Disjunction with one or more texts behind their foreground text in the Gospel genre. They confirmed Quintilian’s theory of structural irony as they also practised it with nuance. The present study proves how radical John was in his understanding of Jesus as the Christ. To claim that the Gospel of John is anti-Christological is unthinkable for New Testament scholars and ...

It is utterly insane even to imagine that the Greco-Roman Church was born with a 'Judas Kiss' at Rome in A.D. 64. Apparently, so it is until an investigative search for the historical evidence finds the basis for the unthinkable contention in the published works of the first century, albeit, it needs the persistence and the keen eye of a Sherlock Holmes.Tacitus told us in his Annales that 'informants' framed the Christians for the Great Fire at Rome in July A.D. 64. Clement of Rome wrote to the Corinthians of 'jealousy' or factional rivalry in the Roman Church that brought about the deaths ...

Textual link between Luke’s Gospel and Clement’s Epistle to the Corinthians was not a happenstance. Luke decided on it to confront Clement’s aggressive stance against the Church of Corinth. He wrote the Gospel to challenge the ‘original witnesses and the guardians of the word’ to allow Theóphilos, his generic reader, to weigh up the truth for certainty of what he has been taught. In his Gospel, Luke repudiated Clement’s overbearing authority as ‘the guardian of the word’, and the claims that the bishops and deacons derived theirs from ‘the original witnesses’, namely, ...

In Christian circles, traditionally the New Testament has been the ultimate and the best evidence for the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth. Such an assumption rests on the belief that New Testament is the vehicle of divine revelation. Hence, it is the Word of God and its genre necessarily unique as ‘sacred scripture’. My book, "The Four Fabulists: the Literary Genres of the Gospels and the Acts of Apostles", offers a different take. With a detailed textual analysis, it successfully argues that far from being a unique genre, the four Gospels and the Acts incontrovertibly belong to the genre...

When I published Paul’s Cracked Mirror: A Faction as ebook, it was clear to me through close-reading of the Epistles of Paul that he was gravely ill with paranoia querulans, or with vexatious paranoia. It is only on completing the research for my ebook Nero’s Minions that implications of Paul’s paranoia querulans became clearer to me. Nero’s Minions took me through a circuitous route. From Flavius Josephus in his Judaean War, I had learnt how important it was for a subversive author to resort to structural irony without being noticed and penalized for it. Josephus expressed his ...

"Gospel of Mark and Loss of Faith" is a study of how Livy's "Ab Urbe Condita" and Homer's "The Odyssey" influenced the Gospel of Mark. Livy's history of Rome showed Mark the way to structure his Gospel as a triple pentad of five chapters, and Homer's epic gave the structure of the monomyth to present Jesus as a mythical hero. From Livy, Mark learnt how to use 'genres disjunction', that is, with the Gospel text in the foreground, he could also have other complete genres, of classical history, the five-act tragedy and the monomyth, in the texts in the background. Furthermore, Livy's use of ...