Carabbas and Barabbas

[Sexton Blake]

Almost exactly two thousand years ago an outspoken evangelist roams the Mediterranean somewhere around Egypt and Judea, preaching to the masses. Whether you are a believer or not, this is undisputed history and this rabble-rousing proselytizer flourished around the time we designate as 20-33 CE. You may have guessed the name of the man of whom I speak: Carabbas.

 

A flighty prophet among so many thousands of the time, Carabbas is a fanatic early first century ascetic who historian Philo Judaeus terms a "madman." A character of memorable elan, Carabbas often appeals to the masses while stark naked as recorded by exalted Philo, eyewitness to the Carabbasian spectacles."' This true story was borrowed by Christians to portray ancient Romans in their supposed mockery of supposed Jesus calling him in the Bible "King of the Jews."'

 

" The trick of changing "Carabbas" to biblical "Barabbas" is evident, and the plagiarism is shameless and obvious when one compares Philo's Flaccus against Matthew 27:

 

Flaccus VI.36- There was a certain madman named Carabbas, afflicted ... with an intermittent and more gentle kind [of madness].

 

Mt 27:26- Then he released to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus, delivered him unto them to be crucified.

 

Flaccus VI.37-38- and they, driving the poor wretch as far as the public gymnasium, and setting him up there on high that he
might be seen by everybody, flattened out a leaf of papyrus and put it on his head instead of a diadem, and clothed the rest of his
body with a common door mat instead of a cloak. ..

 

Mt 27:27-28- Then the soldiers of the governor, taking Jesus into the hall, gathered together unto him the whole band. And stripping
him, they put a scarlet cloak about him.

 

Flaccus VI.39- Then from the multitude of those who were standing around there arose a wonderful shout of men calling out Maris; and this is the name by which it is said that they call the Kings among the Syrians ...

 

Mt 27:29- And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying: Hail, King of the Jews.

 

This is how fables often are often manufactured then later revered: borrowings from earlier reliable works, recycled in attempt to instill some sort of inherited validity.

 

[☆ pantheory ☆]

1 hour ago, Sexton Blake said:

 

.....This is how fables are often manufactured then later revered: borrowings from earlier reliable works, recycled in attempt to instill some sort of inherited validity.

 

Carabbas vs.  Barabbas, only one letter difference.

Sounds like most of the Bible to me -- manufactured fables