Suresh Shenoy
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Have you read a history that is a non-history and a non-history that is history? At first glance, the question is a riddle wrapped in a contradiction. By customary norms of literature, it is mysterious if not nonsensical. That is, until one has read Jorge Luis Borges and Garcia Marquez, the masters of Magic Realism.Writings in the mode of Magic Realism have the quality of magic. As by a sleight of hand, what is real looks like fantasy and what is...
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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...
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For the last two thousand years, the Jewish nation, true and loyal to its ancient heritage, has condemned Flavius Josephus as a traitor to the Jews and a lackey of the Flavian Romans. My research into the Jewish War by Josephus shows that the longheld perception as a traitor is quite mistaken.Josephus used 'genres disjunction' in his War narrative to convey a hidden perception opposed by the public perception. The public perception is of the foreground...
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The four Gospels are Faith Documents of the Christian Church. That is something everybody acknowledges. As such, do they owe any debt at all to the pre-Christian heathens? The answers are not as confident. What sort of a debt is it? How much of it is at the core of the Gospels? The answers to these are up to the speculators to tease out. That is until now.Christ-Hero of the Monomyths establishes the presence of Egyptian, Babylonian and Phoenician...