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Jesus, sensing Judas' cupidity, chose him as the instrument of betrayal in order to fulfill the prophecy of Psalms: "Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted . . . hath lifted up his heel against me." Jesus' "stratagem," says Schonfield, was "designed to pile on the pressure at the crucial moment and induce the traitor to act." When Mary washed his feet with precious ointment, Jesus let "fall the words about his body being anointed for burial." Like "an inspiration it came to" Judas "that money was to be made by doing what Jesus plainly wanted. The tempter came...
Mandrake Wine. According to plan, Schonfield suggests, Jesus' body was turned over to Joseph of Arimathea. Jesus' legs were not broken with mallets as were those of the robbers crucified with him; vinegar supplied to him by an unnamed onlooker, which in the Gospels preceded his "giving up the ghost," was probably a drug. University of California Anthropologist Michael J. Harner, corroborating Schonfield, said last week that wine made from the mandrake plant was used in Palestine to induce a deathlike state in persons who were being crucified...
Some of the plotters, Schonfield conjectures, got Jesus from the tomb during the second night, but he probably died soon thereafter from the unforeseen wound inflicted by the thrust of the Roman soldier's spear into his side. The body was then buried in another place. All of this was done in utmost secrecy because it was a capital offense under Roman law to desecrate the tombs of the dead...
...accounts. Bultmann asserted that the Resurrection is not a historical event and is "nothing other than faith in the cross as the salvation event." Schweitzer rejected both the empty tomb and the Resurrection as legendary, stressing that they were unnecessary to the truths proclaimed by Jesus in his teachings. Schonfield claims that as a Jew he has no need to torture the no-Resurrection theory into some form of support for Christianity, but he does not discredit Christ. Instead, he argues that Christ was indeed the Messiah-the Son of Man, as he thought of himself...
...Schonfield frequently uses his own translation of the New Testament...