In existographies, Vespasian (9-79AD) (CR:5) was a Roman emperor, who ruled from 69 to 79AD, noted for []
Jesus | Roman recension
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Vespasian, when in Alexandria, according to Tacitus (c.105AD), healed a blind man immediately upon touching his eyes and he also healed a cripple by touching the sole of his feet. [1]
Jesus, likewise, was said to have healed a blind man (John 9-12) (Ѻ) and healed a cripple (Matthew 9) (Ѻ).
In 69AD, Vespasian promoted a state religion based on the supreme gods Serapis (Osiris-Apis) and Isis. [2]
In 2006, Joseph Atwill, in his Caesar’s Messiah, argued that the New Testament Gospels were written as wartime propaganda by scholars connected to the Roman imperial court of the Flavian emperors: Vespasian, Titus and Domitian, whose primary purpose in creating the religion was to control the spread of Judaism and moderate its political virulence, in light of the fact that the Jewish nationalist zealots had been defeated in the First Jewish–Roman War of 70 AD, but that Judaism remained an influential movement throughout the Mediterranean region. Atwill argues that the biblical character Jesus Christ is a typological representation of the Roman emperor Titus. (Ѻ)
Quotes | By
The following are quotes by Vespasian:
“It is uncivil to give ill language first, but civil and lawful to return it.”
— Vespasian (c.60), law of gentlemanly debate; employed by Thomas Hobbes; cited by Steven Shapin (1985) in Leviathan and the Air Pump (pg. 106)
References
1. (a) Tacitus. (c.105). Histories (4:81). Publisher.
(b) Meslier, Jean. (1729). Testament: Memoir of the Thoughts and Sentiments of Jean Meslier (translator: Michael Shreve; preface: Michel Onfray) (pgs. 81-82). Prometheus Books.
2. Budge, Wallis. (1904). The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume Two (Sahal Island rock inscription, pg. 52; Vespasian, pg. 217; Serapis, pg. 349) (Ѻ). Dover, 1969.
External links
● Vespasian – Wikipedia.
