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    http://www.smallkidtime.com/ WEBSITE CAROTTA: http://www.carotta.de See also: http://www.vanfrieslandfilm.nl A documentary by Jan van Friesland The Gospel of Caesar - discovering the historical Christ-, a documentary film by Dutch Public Broadcast VARA-TELEVISION and director Jan van Friesland. Following the tracks of two investigators on their quest for the historical Jesus this enthralling documentary about the life, death and apotheosis of ‘the greatest of mortals’ unravels the hidden origin of Christianity. Francesco Carotta, an Italian linguist, philosopher and engineer, discovered that the story of Jesus Christ is based on the life of Caesar. (Carotta, F. (1999) War Jesus Caesar? Munich.) Carotta: ‘Everything in the story of Jesus can be found in the biography of Caesar. The Gospel appears to be the history of the Roman Civil War, a ‘mis-telling’ of the life of Caesar – from the Rubicon to his assassination – mutated into the narrative of Jesus, from the Jordan to his crucifixion. Jesus is a true historical figure, he lived as Gaius Julius Caesar, and resurrected as Divus Julius, later transformed into Jesus.’ Inspired by Carotta’s publication in order to verify this hypothesis, together with Pedro García González, a Spanish priest, they investigated Roman traces of the passion in the Semana Santa, the Holy Week, and compared it with the reconstruction of the funeral of Caesar, according to the ancient sources, which lead to fragments of an earlier passion about the betrayal, death and ‘crucifixion’ of Caesar. García González: ‘The death and deification of Caesar is the essence and origin of Christianity, which happened on the Forum Romanum in Rome.’ SHORT SYNOPSIS: The Gospel of Caesar documents the revolutionary and fascinating research of the Italian linguist Francesco Carotta, who concluded after a decade-long investigation that the Gospel narrative of the New Testament completely originated from the ancient sources on the life of Julius Caesar. Intrigued by the discovery that Caesar could be the historical Christ, the Spanish priest Pedro García González joins him on his journey all across Europe to search for traces of the deified Caesar in old Christian rituals and traditions, written sources, church art and archaeological finds. Along the way they meet other priests and scientists. They encounter skepticism and enthusiasm, criticism and approval, but every step of the way takes them further toward the obscure origins of early Christianity. To verify the theory they reconstruct the pivotal funeral ceremony of Caesar, which could have been the historical incident behind the later story of the crucifixion of Christ. They resuscitate this ancient historical event with young people from the priest’s parish and reveal the image of the first Savior on the Cross, who had been forgotten for almost 2000 years. REACTIONS: Scholars speak of a paradigm shift with respect to the history of Chris- tianity: ‘This is a shift of paradigm in the history of religion.’ - Fotis A. Kavoukopoulos, Ph. D. ‘The author draws parallels between the founder of religion Jesus and Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor, whose name was given to all succeeding emperors.’ - Erika Simon, Ph.D. ‘This report is of the same order of importance as the scientific discoveries of Darwin and Galileo... Carotta’s discovery will turn the entire history of civilization upside down.’ - Paul Cliteur, Ph.D. ‘I try to explain this theory to my pupils at the gymnasium and give arguments for its plausibility and they react very enthousiastic.’ - Gerard Janssen, MA ‘As a work hypothesis it is very important, especially because it fills a gap, what, from the point of view of the investigation, heuristic, was never made.’ - Francisco Rodríguez Pascual, Ph.D. For more than four years the documentary maker accompanied the two investigators, the linguist and the priest, on their co

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    http://www.smallkidtime.com/ WEBSITE CAROTTA: http://www.carotta.de See also: http://www.vanfrieslandfilm.nl A documentary by Jan van Friesland The Gospel of Caesar - discovering the historical Christ-, a documentary film by Dutch Public Broadcast VARA-TELEVISION and director Jan van Friesland. Following the tracks of two investigators on their quest for the historical Jesus this enthralling documentary about the life, death and apotheosis of ‘the greatest of mortals’ unravels the hidden origin of Christianity. Francesco Carotta, an Italian linguist, philosopher and engineer, discovered that the story of Jesus Christ is based on the life of Caesar. (Carotta, F. (1999) War Jesus Caesar? Munich.) Carotta: ‘Everything in the story of Jesus can be found in the biography of Caesar. The Gospel appears to be the history of the Roman Civil War, a ‘mis-telling’ of the life of Caesar – from the Rubicon to his assassination – mutated into the narrative of Jesus, from the Jordan to his crucifixion. Jesus is a true historical figure, he lived as Gaius Julius Caesar, and resurrected as Divus Julius, later transformed into Jesus.’ Inspired by Carotta’s publication in order to verify this hypothesis, together with Pedro García González, a Spanish priest, they investigated Roman traces of the passion in the Semana Santa, the Holy Week, and compared it with the reconstruction of the funeral of Caesar, according to the ancient sources, which lead to fragments of an earlier passion about the betrayal, death and ‘crucifixion’ of Caesar. García González: ‘The death and deification of Caesar is the essence and origin of Christianity, which happened on the Forum Romanum in Rome.’ SHORT SYNOPSIS: The Gospel of Caesar documents the revolutionary and fascinating research of the Italian linguist Francesco Carotta, who concluded after a decade-long investigation that the Gospel narrative of the New Testament completely originated from the ancient sources on the life of Julius Caesar. Intrigued by the discovery that Caesar could be the historical Christ, the Spanish priest Pedro García González joins him on his journey all across Europe to search for traces of the deified Caesar in old Christian rituals and traditions, written sources, church art and archaeological finds. Along the way they meet other priests and scientists. They encounter skepticism and enthusiasm, criticism and approval, but every step of the way takes them further toward the obscure origins of early Christianity. To verify the theory they reconstruct the pivotal funeral ceremony of Caesar, which could have been the historical incident behind the later story of the crucifixion of Christ. They resuscitate this ancient historical event with young people from the priest’s parish and reveal the image of the first Savior on the Cross, who had been forgotten for almost 2000 years. REACTIONS: Scholars speak of a paradigm shift with respect to the history of Chris- tianity: ‘This is a shift of paradigm in the history of religion.’ - Fotis A. Kavoukopoulos, Ph. D. ‘The author draws parallels between the founder of religion Jesus and Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor, whose name was given to all succeeding emperors.’ - Erika Simon, Ph.D. ‘This report is of the same order of importance as the scientific discoveries of Darwin and Galileo... Carotta’s discovery will turn the entire history of civilization upside down.’ - Paul Cliteur, Ph.D. ‘I try to explain this theory to my pupils at the gymnasium and give arguments for its plausibility and they react very enthousiastic.’ - Gerard Janssen, MA ‘As a work hypothesis it is very important, especially because it fills a gap, what, from the point of view of the investigation, heuristic, was never made.’ - Francisco Rodríguez Pascual, Ph.D. For more than four years the documentary maker accompanied the two investigators, the linguist and the priest, on their co

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    http://www.smallkidtime.com/ WEBSITE CAROTTA: http://www.carotta.de See also: http://www.vanfrieslandfilm.nl A documentary by Jan van Friesland The Gospel of Caesar - discovering the historical Christ-, a documentary film by Dutch Public Broadcast VARA-TELEVISION and director Jan van Friesland. Following the tracks of two investigators on their quest for the historical Jesus this enthralling documentary about the life, death and apotheosis of ‘the greatest of mortals’ unravels the hidden origin of Christianity. Francesco Carotta, an Italian linguist, philosopher and engineer, discovered that the story of Jesus Christ is based on the life of Caesar. (Carotta, F. (1999) War Jesus Caesar? Munich.) Carotta: ‘Everything in the story of Jesus can be found in the biography of Caesar. The Gospel appears to be the history of the Roman Civil War, a ‘mis-telling’ of the life of Caesar – from the Rubicon to his assassination – mutated into the narrative of Jesus, from the Jordan to his crucifixion. Jesus is a true historical figure, he lived as Gaius Julius Caesar, and resurrected as Divus Julius, later transformed into Jesus.’ Inspired by Carotta’s publication in order to verify this hypothesis, together with Pedro García González, a Spanish priest, they investigated Roman traces of the passion in the Semana Santa, the Holy Week, and compared it with the reconstruction of the funeral of Caesar, according to the ancient sources, which lead to fragments of an earlier passion about the betrayal, death and ‘crucifixion’ of Caesar. García González: ‘The death and deification of Caesar is the essence and origin of Christianity, which happened on the Forum Romanum in Rome.’ SHORT SYNOPSIS: The Gospel of Caesar documents the revolutionary and fascinating research of the Italian linguist Francesco Carotta, who concluded after a decade-long investigation that the Gospel narrative of the New Testament completely originated from the ancient sources on the life of Julius Caesar. Intrigued by the discovery that Caesar could be the historical Christ, the Spanish priest Pedro García González joins him on his journey all across Europe to search for traces of the deified Caesar in old Christian rituals and traditions, written sources, church art and archaeological finds. Along the way they meet other priests and scientists. They encounter skepticism and enthusiasm, criticism and approval, but every step of the way takes them further toward the obscure origins of early Christianity. To verify the theory they reconstruct the pivotal funeral ceremony of Caesar, which could have been the historical incident behind the later story of the crucifixion of Christ. They resuscitate this ancient historical event with young people from the priest’s parish and reveal the image of the first Savior on the Cross, who had been forgotten for almost 2000 years. REACTIONS: Scholars speak of a paradigm shift with respect to the history of Chris- tianity: ‘This is a shift of paradigm in the history of religion.’ - Fotis A. Kavoukopoulos, Ph. D. ‘The author draws parallels between the founder of religion Jesus and Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor, whose name was given to all succeeding emperors.’ - Erika Simon, Ph.D. ‘This report is of the same order of importance as the scientific discoveries of Darwin and Galileo... Carotta’s discovery will turn the entire history of civilization upside down.’ - Paul Cliteur, Ph.D. ‘I try to explain this theory to my pupils at the gymnasium and give arguments for its plausibility and they react very enthousiastic.’ - Gerard Janssen, MA ‘As a work hypothesis it is very important, especially because it fills a gap, what, from the point of view of the investigation, heuristic, was never made.’ - Francisco Rodríguez Pascual, Ph.D. For more than four years the documentary maker accompanied the two investigators, the linguist and the priest, on their co

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    http://www.smallkidtime.com/ WEBSITE CAROTTA: http://www.carotta.de See also: http://www.vanfrieslandfilm.nl A documentary by Jan van Friesland The Gospel of Caesar - discovering the historical Christ-, a documentary film by Dutch Public Broadcast VARA-TELEVISION and director Jan van Friesland. Following the tracks of two investigators on their quest for the historical Jesus this enthralling documentary about the life, death and apotheosis of ‘the greatest of mortals’ unravels the hidden origin of Christianity. Francesco Carotta, an Italian linguist, philosopher and engineer, discovered that the story of Jesus Christ is based on the life of Caesar. (Carotta, F. (1999) War Jesus Caesar? Munich.) Carotta: ‘Everything in the story of Jesus can be found in the biography of Caesar. The Gospel appears to be the history of the Roman Civil War, a ‘mis-telling’ of the life of Caesar – from the Rubicon to his assassination – mutated into the narrative of Jesus, from the Jordan to his crucifixion. Jesus is a true historical figure, he lived as Gaius Julius Caesar, and resurrected as Divus Julius, later transformed into Jesus.’ Inspired by Carotta’s publication in order to verify this hypothesis, together with Pedro García González, a Spanish priest, they investigated Roman traces of the passion in the Semana Santa, the Holy Week, and compared it with the reconstruction of the funeral of Caesar, according to the ancient sources, which lead to fragments of an earlier passion about the betrayal, death and ‘crucifixion’ of Caesar. García González: ‘The death and deification of Caesar is the essence and origin of Christianity, which happened on the Forum Romanum in Rome.’ SHORT SYNOPSIS: The Gospel of Caesar documents the revolutionary and fascinating research of the Italian linguist Francesco Carotta, who concluded after a decade-long investigation that the Gospel narrative of the New Testament completely originated from the ancient sources on the life of Julius Caesar. Intrigued by the discovery that Caesar could be the historical Christ, the Spanish priest Pedro García González joins him on his journey all across Europe to search for traces of the deified Caesar in old Christian rituals and traditions, written sources, church art and archaeological finds. Along the way they meet other priests and scientists. They encounter skepticism and enthusiasm, criticism and approval, but every step of the way takes them further toward the obscure origins of early Christianity. To verify the theory they reconstruct the pivotal funeral ceremony of Caesar, which could have been the historical incident behind the later story of the crucifixion of Christ. They resuscitate this ancient historical event with young people from the priest’s parish and reveal the image of the first Savior on the Cross, who had been forgotten for almost 2000 years. REACTIONS: Scholars speak of a paradigm shift with respect to the history of Chris- tianity: ‘This is a shift of paradigm in the history of religion.’ - Fotis A. Kavoukopoulos, Ph. D. ‘The author draws parallels between the founder of religion Jesus and Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor, whose name was given to all succeeding emperors.’ - Erika Simon, Ph.D. ‘This report is of the same order of importance as the scientific discoveries of Darwin and Galileo... Carotta’s discovery will turn the entire history of civilization upside down.’ - Paul Cliteur, Ph.D. ‘I try to explain this theory to my pupils at the gymnasium and give arguments for its plausibility and they react very enthousiastic.’ - Gerard Janssen, MA ‘As a work hypothesis it is very important, especially because it fills a gap, what, from the point of view of the investigation, heuristic, was never made.’ - Francisco Rodríguez Pascual, Ph.D. For more than four years the documentary maker accompanied the two investigators, the linguist and the priest, on their co

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    Jesus was Caesar

    Jesus was Caesar:


    The Julian Origin of Christianity

    by Francesco Carotta
    Paperback: 512 pages
    Publisher: Aspekt B V Uitgeverij (January 1, 2005)
    ISBN: 9059113969

    Not impossible.
    Is there a link between Julius Caesar and Jesus Christ? Could one be the basis of
    the other? It may sound impossible, but it's not!

    Yes, from what we have been told, they are very different. We know Caesar as the
    quintessential ambitious Roman who waged war and defeated foes like Vercingetorix
    in Gaul, or Caesar's former friend, son-in-law and fellow Roman Pompey the Great.
    Caesar traveled extensively and led conquering armies from the Nile in Egypt to
    the Thames of Britannica. He is associated with pomp, pageantry and military
    prowess like no other person before or since. How different is the story of Jesus
    Christ! Here we have a figure of religious focus exclusively, and a mysterious
    lack of any mention by the historians of his time. His career was brief and his
    travels limited to wandering within a small area of Palestine. Far from being a
    man of war, he is known to us most for preaching love, peace, and forgiveness. So
    any suggestion of a link between these two men sounds absurd to us, or even
    impossible. This is reaction is common to us all. But everything will begin to
    change if we have the courage to look more closely.

    In Jesus was Caesar, the author Francesco Carotta looks more closely than anyone
    else ever thought to, and he provides an astonishing amount of evidence that a
    link is not only possible, but very likely. The truth turns out to be, like the
    old saying goes: stranger than fiction.

    How could this be: How could such simple facts become so drastically confused?
    The reasons are many and complex, and we will never know all the details. But we
    can say for certain that political expediency began the process. The Roman world
    was in chaos after Caesar's death in 44BC. A Roman civil war erupted, this one
    even more bloody and ruthless than the previous. A long period of underground
    struggle ensued between two sometimes allied, but always competing factions for
    control of the empire: Octavian in the West claimed control as the adopted son of
    Julius Caesar, while Mark Antony was in the East supporting the claim of Caesar's
    biological son by Cleopatra. These two men out of necessity created competing
    versions of the extremely popular and ubiquitous cult of the deified Julius
    Caesar, Divus Iulius. The political division of the empire into two spheres of
    influence (Octavian in Rome, and Antony in Alexandria) was reflected in two
    conflicting religious worldviews, and this created the great fissure upon which
    was built the great theological division of earliest Christianity—the one between
    Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. When Octavian defeated Antony and
    Cleopatra, he consolidated his control over the east by persecuting all forms of
    the Divus Iulius cult that had been created and promoted by Antony and Cleopatra.
    This is probably the source of the traditional stories of early Christianity
    persecutions, and also the long-lasting propensity of the Church to hunt-down and
    destroy ideas considered it considers 'heretical'.

    The cult was localized, or adapted to the varying conditions of many locales all
    across the empire, and one of these areas was Palestine. Under the long reign of
    King Herod the Palestinian localized version of the cult was subjected to various
    alterations, and they had added weight and carrying power because Herod was an
    adopted son of Caesar himself, and was considered to be a Julian family member.
    Even further, he had at his disposal Roman veteran soldiers who had been planted
    there in colonies, and their descendants inherited the prestige of their fathers,
    and their misconceptions of history and the cult probably lived on and had a great
    effect.

    But the most drastic alterations occurred during to the time of Vespasian and his
    Jewish quasi-historian named Josephus was primarily responsible. This Emperor
    (Vespasian) had a unique concern: he needed to legitimate his claim to the throne
    because he had no claim of blood descent from the Iulian family. One solution was
    to take advantage of prophecies in the east that foretold that arrival of a new
    ruler of the world who would come from Palestine. With the creative assistance of
    Josephus, Vespasian sought to prove that he was this prophesied ruler. And with
    this as the goal, the cult of Divus Iulius and its traditions would undergo
    massive emergency plastic surgery. The historical accounts of Julius Caesar were
    re-interpreted to reflect an eastern origin.

    In Jesus was Caesar, the author actually uncovers many other possible sources of
    confusion that would have led to the grand scale of the misunderstanding. Surely a
    mistake of this grand a scale needed many misunderstandings as well as a
    widespread ignorance in the populace, and also political reasons for the powerful
    to either permit all of it to fester, or even actively assist the spread.

    Now, if this is really true, then why has no one discovered it until now?
    When thinking of the average person the answer is easy: Because the vast majority
    takes for granted that they already know who Jesus Christ and Julius Caesar were,
    when in fact they know very few pertinent facts about either one, and what little
    they do 'know' is inaccurate, incomplete, or outright balderdash. And as for the
    case of the well-educated, nearly all of them are completely ignorant of the most
    essential facts about Gaius Julius Caesar. How few know that Gaius Julius Caesar
    was the Pontifex Maximus of Rome, and that his successful political career hinged
    upon his being the High Priest of Rome. How little discussion or thought is made
    of the implication that being the Pontifex Maximus, Gaius Julius Caesar would have
    been leading armies who considered him to be their religious leader first and
    foremost. As Pontifex Maximus Caesar's every move, word, and gesture would have
    carried a religious meaning to his soldiers. How little attention is given to the
    absolute certainty that in the eyes of the populace of Rome, monumental religious
    consequences must occur because of the murder of Gaius Julius Caesar: he was the
    High Priest of their city; He was the High Priest who had conquered the entire
    world; who had conquered in the name of saving them from certain slavery to an
    exploitive Roman nobility; and who had in fact been already recognized as a god
    while still living!

    The author's (Francesco Carotta's) website: http://carotta.de/

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