The Man from Alexandria

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John Chapman

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Who was Jesus? A bishop recently used His biography to illustrate a good theological point when he described Him as 'an uneducated man from Nazareth, son of a poor carpenter named Joseph who preached in several synagogues'. The implication is that all the wisdom Jesus exhibits comes from God who would surely have informed Him of modern technology, whereas Jesus clearly demonstrates a detailed knowledge of Alexandrine philosophy. Then why would a poor carpenter make a long journey to Bethlehem to register for Roman taxation? The Roman taxation system depended upon identifying wealth and grabbing a portion of it. In this book we try to answer these conundrums by looking at the New Testament and attempting to separate myth from history. We arrive at the almost inevitable conclusion that Jesus was the son of Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy merchant of Alexandria, received His education at the best of institutions of the time and married Mary Magdalene to qualify to speak in a synagogue. We use the text of the King James version and try to compare different accounts of the same incidents to see how the Christian Church came to be.

Author Biography:

John Chapman was born in Birmingham, England in 1935 and grew up mainly in Gloucestershire. He attended Southampton University and gained an honours degree in mathematics with aeronautics; but was seduced by the emerging computer technology. After a spell in Northern Ireland he moved to Toronto where he worked for Ferranti-Packard with some of the brightest brains of the period and developed techniques for digitising oil-well logs to release fifty year old data to computer technology. After spells in Australia, Scotland and Sweden he returned to England in 1970 to work for ICL, having married Ann in 1966 and having three children. Here he continued to travel the world advising many institutions on how best to exploit the new technologies before retiring in 1992. He became a school inspector, served for nearly fifty years as a local councillor and became deeply immersed in local and military history being either the author or co-author of many books. He was also a leader in helping others, being the chairman of his local voluntary society for many years.

Release date Australia

November 27th, 2023

Author

John Chapman

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

434

Dimensions

152x229x25

ISBN-13

9781961677180

Product ID

38444319

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