Essene Origins Of Christianity
H mm... yes.no.maybe@juno.com
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:51:38 -0800 (00915609098, 19990105.175139.11382.1.yes.no.maybe@juno.com)
>Joe Alward:
>
>The story of Jehoshua ben Pandeira is discussed at some length by Yoel
>Wasserman, aka Eyal Yariv, aka Hassyim ben Yehoshua, in a private
>communication to me by Yoel Wasserman early in 1998. The URL is
>
>http://members.aol.com/JAlw/jesus_myth1.html
I'm reading that. It appears to deal with "Yeshu ben Pandeira" not
"Jehoshua" or "Yehoshua". In fact the author stresses that Yeshu is not a
shortened form of Yehoshua, but of Yeshua. Since this is on your own
website I would have thought you'd be more accurate.
I point this out because I was cornered by some wacko woman who insisted
that Jesus' "true name" "is" Yehoshua. I replied that I thought it was
Yeshua, and she steamrolled right over me. It was awful. She had that
gleam in her eye. She went on to claim that the name "really has powers",
rant rant rant. She had her own tiny little sect, with 4 other people.
Scary.
Anyway Joe, if you're going to be knowledgeable about shit like this,
then you should at least keep track of what you've got on your own
website and keep the names distinct, especially when the distinction is
important to the author of the material you support.
I also noticed that in your Errancy post, you make it clear that
Wasserman and Hassyim ben Yehoshua are one and the same, yet on your
website you have the author of the article as Hasyyim (or, a few lines
down, Hayyim -- which brings us to 3 different spellings that you have
used!) ben Yehoshua. The essay is "Forwarded by Yoel Wasserman" -- as if
Wasserman forwarded someone elses' article to you. Eh?! It all seems a
little dodgy. A touch of the Turkel/Holding.
The article was very interesting, BTW, just couldn't help being
distracted by this wierdness.
Hmm...
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