Day: September 30, 2016

If Jesus is such a significant figure in world history, what does the historical record give us about who he was and where he came from. That’s the question which Ralph Ellis asks, and as far as I am concerned, answers – by working his way through Josephus Flavius’ many deceptions and finding out the true historical context of the events that took place.

Ellis’ notion that the Israelites came out of Egypt because they were in fact Egyptian, is a key fact that his book ‘Cleopatra to Christ’ gets across forcefully. The Hebrew language descends from Egyptian, and many of Ellis’ explanations use his linguistic knowledge of Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew and Persian to track the family dynasty from which the biblical Jesus is descended.