Why no historian has ever questioned about the likely relationship between Saul (Paul) el'etnarca Herod Agrippa?
by: Paul Boccuccia
In 1983 the eminent Professor Robert Eisenman examined the references that appear in the Acts of the Apostles on the relationship between Paul "of Tarsus and the dynasty in power in Palestine with Tetrarchs successors of Herod, in a communication entitled "Paul as Herodian" read at the Society of Biblical Literature in the same year the lecture was published in an article along the same lines appeared on the London magazine "Higgest studies. The thesis
the American scholar who was both the doctrine that the work of Paul, "Apostle to the Gentiles," were placed in perfect harmony with the policy of King Herod and his successors tetrarchs, namely that of overcoming the conflict between Jews and Gentiles, so marked in the religious field, and then reflecting socio-political, in order to unify and pacify the country by their government, which in fact is the Jews who lived together "Pagans". With his doctrine of the overcoming of the Mosaic Law and the Sinaitic Covenant through the universal redemption accomplished by Christ, Paul gave a doctrinal basis for the program Herodian and through his missionary work among the Jews of the Diaspora they laid the political foundations. Paul, Therefore, according to Eisenman, clung to the small but powerful party of the Herodians, obviously encouraged and bankrolled by the Roman authorities for their continued interest in the program conciliatory Herod and approving those of his successors. What the great American scholar said no, and Paul did not write about is something very obvious, so obvious that it escaped the scholars say that Paul (or Saul) that not only belonged to the Herodian party, but also to the Herodian family, since he the same person mentioned by Josephus in the Jewish War as Costobar Saul's brother, a relative of ethnarch Agrippa I and his son Agrippa II, and that the easiest of genealogical reconstructions appear to be his uncle and his cousin ...
We are really puzzled over this incredible void of interpretation of historical references very evident, so clear to us to reject the temptation of pride for what we understood, and we can not banish from his mind the suspicion that by all we do not notice that it took the Saul of Josephus and Saul - later Paul of Acts were the same person: a grandson of Herod, the son of a son of Salome, the sister of the tyrant and his demon inspired crime family. Too much time would have been devastating to see what was so clear ... in fact
comparing the text of Josephus in Jewish Antiquities (Book XX - 4) and "Luke" Acts of the Apostles (Acts, 9 / 1-ff) we see a disturbing parallel: Josephus writes: "Costobar and (his brother) Saul had gathered bands of troublemakers, and they were of royal lineage (Herodian) and enjoyed favors because of their kinship with Agrippa (Herod Agrippa, ethnarch and puppet of the Romans in Palestine), but they were wild and ready to plunder the property of the weak. " And the writer of Acts wrote, "while Saul still breathing (e) threatening to slaughter the Lord's disciples ..."
It is evident the absurdity of a police mission entrusted by the High Priest in Damascus of Saul, as a point of view of jurisdiction Diaspora Jews depended on the local Roman authorities, on the other hand, in the group of documents found at Qumran there is a roll called "Damascus": this was the code name used by the Essenes to indicate their sect, and not a geographic location, much less the Syrian city of that name. In the context of Acts, the mission of religious police to Saul in Damascus is used as a priori justification of the "fall on the road to Damascus," Saul of the same, followed by the conversion. But we can deduce that Saul came into relationship with "Damascus" or with the Essenes, it is apparently converted integralism religious sect and not a Christian did not exist anywhere, and that will be invented by the same year after Saul became Paul on the occasion ...
As is clearly stated by Josephus in "Jewish War" (II - 418 et seq.) "Costobar and Saul were brothers" , and their Hebrew names for nothing can be mapped to an area north Edomite Arabs in general and in particular. In the biblical context, there is no history Flaviana Costobar and is quoted only Costobar brother of Herod the Great, the second husband of his sister Salome, who got rid of him just as he did with her first husband, accusing him of conspiring against Herod. However, Salome Costobar and had a daughter, Bernice, who married her cousin Aristobulus son of Herod and Mariamne Hasmonean. The couple had three sons, one of whom Herod Agrippa I, ethnarch future of Israel and a second, Herod of Chalcis (a tiny kingdom in Phoenicia), and third, another Aristobulus, the abandonment of their title and retired to life Private giving itself to trade with the Roman masters.
addition to go into business with Rome, Aristobulus bar Costobar inherited from his mother Salome Roman citizenship, which she had inherited from his father Antipater in which he had granted by Julius Caesar had the support of the military in the fight against Pompey. He then passed it on to children, we hypothesize that Saul and his brother were Costobar II (Which was named after his grandfather), a character in the text makes no mention of Flavian. E 'for this reason that Paul proclaims in Acts to be a Roman citizen by inheritance of title and not to have paid a high price and it is because of such a lineage that Josephus says of Saul and his brother Costobar, "Son heir "(firstborn in Aramaic Barnabas) who" enjoyed favors because of their kinship with Agrippa "and that" they were of royal blood. "
It 'still suspect or at least surprising that no historian or scholar who has ever asked for this relationship to exist between the humbug Saul el'etnarca Herod Agrippa his son and heir to the title. And moreover, as there has ever been asked if it was possible that they had lived in the same year between 45 and 66 two characters as the Flavian Saul and Saul, later Paul, the Acts, who have committed violence in youth squads, identified as different individuals. One of the royal family and relatives of a puppet king, the other son of a craftsman of Tarsus, who was born in the Diaspora but lived in Jerusalem and, though a Pharisee, a good relationship with the priestly cast of collaborators ("Sadducees") and with ethnarch Agrippa II and with his sister Bernice, his mistress and future emperor Titus's lover
... It would have been devastating to conclude that the 'Apostle of the people "in the end was great-grandson of quell'Erode that the Gospels attribute the persecution of the Child Jesus and the Massacre of the Innocents ...
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