Media Big Lie: "Jesus fathered by Roman soldier, possibly by rape"

New York Times channels Talmudic hate speech

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A few days before Christmas Eve the New York Times published, “A Conversation about the Virgin Birth that Maybe Wasn’t” by Times columnist Nicholas Kristof who describes his source for his attack on Jesus and Mary as “Elaine Pagels, a prominent professor of religion at Princeton University and an expert on the early church.”

Of course if this lady is indeed a bona fide “expert” on the early church, then there’s nothing more to debate. Pagels’ allegation that Mary was raped by a Roman soldier, became pregnant and gave birth to Jesus is more or less authenticated by the “expert” status conferred on her by the Times.

The New York Times states, “Miracles and Wonder is the title of (Pagels’) fascinating forthcoming book. It raises questions about the virgin birth of Jesus, even pointing to ancient evidence that Jesus might have been fathered by a Roman soldier, possibly by rape.”

“Evidence?” The dreadful falsehood about Our Lord and Lady is little more than than a jumble of Talmudic canards.

Kristof: “You cite evidence going back to the first and second centuries that some referred to Jesus as the son of a Roman soldier named Panthera. These accounts are mostly from early writers trying to disparage Jesus, it seems, so perhaps they should be regarded skeptically. But you also write that Panthera appears to have been a real person….You write that there were early accusations against Mary of promiscuity, connected to this allegation of an affair with Panthera…How should we think about this?”

Pagels: “Yes, these stories circulated after Jesus’ death among members of the Jewish community who regarded him as a false messiah, saying that Jesus’ father was a Roman soldier. I used to dismiss such stories as ancient slander. Yet while we do not know what happened, there are too many points of circumstantial evidence to simply ignore them. The name Panthera, sometimes spelled differently in ancient sources, may refer to a panther skin that certain soldiers wore. The discovery of the grave of a Roman soldier named Tiberius Panthera, member of a cohort of Syrian archers stationed in Palestine in the first century, might support those ancient rumors.” (End quote from the Times, emphasis supplied).

Michael Hoffman: The 800 pound gorilla in the room is the Talmud of Babylon, which is the source of these absurd and baseless flights of fancy. The Left-wing New York Times rather conspicuously chose to suppress the fabrication’s controversial origin. On the Right wing, on “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News on December 23, guest host Raymond Arroyo conducted a segment on Kristof’s column and Pagels’ defamation of Mary and Jesus, while —like the Times — omitting the Talmudic source for the lie. Why? Because hate speech in the Talmud is kryptonite to the self-appointed gatekeeper supermen in charge of the legacy media.

The following information is excerpted from my textbook, Judaism Discovered:

The Babylonian Talmud attacks Mary the mother of Jesus with insults and aspersions against her moral character. Some of the Talmudic falsehoods about Mary are centered on tales of a certain “Pandera” (Babylonian Talmud, hereafter “BT” Sanhedrin 67a), and his consort, called alternately “Sedata” and “Miriam the hairdresser.”

BT Sanhedrin 67a

Blessed Mary, called “Miriam the hairdresser” in the Talmud, is vilified as a “promiscuous woman,” while the other name assigned to her, “Sedata” is a synonym for adulteress.

In a footnote to tractate Babylonian Talmud [BT] Shabbath 104b in the Soncino Talmud we read as follows: “In the uncensored text this passage follows: Was he then the son of Stada: surely he was the son of Pandira? —Said R. Hisda: The husband was Stada, the paramour was Pandira…It is as we say in Pumbeditha: This one has been unfaithful to her husband (satat da mi-ba'alah).’”

In the Talmud, according to tradition, the fool/magician/inciter (Jesus) is called ‘son of Stada’ and according to another tradition he is termed ‘son of Pandera.’ The Talmud is concerned about the fact that the same person is called by two different names.

Rav Hisda (a Babylonian amora of the third generation and an important teacher at the academy of Sura; died 309 A.D.), stated that the person in question had, as it were, two “fathers,” because his mother had a husband and a sex partner, and that Jesus was called ‘son of Stada,’ when referring to the husband, and ‘son of Pandera,’ when referring to the sex partner.

Let’s decode “Stada” the Talmud’s name for the mother of Jesus:

His mother’s name is given as both “Miriam” and “Stada,” which is a grave insult. Prof. Peter Schäfer in his foundational book, Jesus in the Talmud (2009, p. 226), demonstrates that “Stada” is derived from the Hebrew/Aramaic root word satah/seté (“to deviate from the right path, to go astray, to be unfaithful”). In other words, Jesus’ mother “Miriam” was also called “Stada” because in the eyes of the rabbis she was a sotah, a woman suspected, or convicted, of adultery.

The Steinsaltz edition of BT Sanhedrin 67a states concerning Jesus who is vilified as the “inciter”: “…the inciter’s mother was Miryam the (woman’s) hairdresser...a promiscuous woman: that one (setat da) strayed from her husband.”

J. Gresham Machen, The Virgin Birth of Christ (1965), 415 pp.

The Babylonian Talmud is gratuitously insulting and defaming Christ and His mother. Mary was a chaste and humble Israelite woman. How can she merit any defamation whatsoever, except for the fact that she gave birth to the Messiah of Israel?

BT Gittin 90a

For that birth she is declared to have been lewd, shameless, an adulteress and a nymphomaniac, whom her husband (“Pappos ben Yehuda”) was compelled to lock up to keep her from having sex with other men (BT Gittin 90a).

In the case of Jesus and Mary, the Talmud is purely a vehicle for vengeance and resentment.

Notice the timing of the publicity the New York Times accorded Pagels and her smear campaign against the Son of God and the Blessed Virgin — three days before Christmas Eve.

Coincidence? I think not. It has happened before.

The “Jesus had a Wife” Hoax

On April 10, 2014, a week before Good Friday, the New York Times published a report by staff writer Laurie Goodstein suggesting there was evidence that Jesus had married and had a wife. The headline of the article read, “Papyrus Referring to Jesus’ Wife Is More Likely Ancient Than Fake, Scientists Say.”

Goodstein wrote, “…the tiny scrap of papyrus…contained a phrase never before seen in any piece of Scripture: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife...’ …it also contained the words ‘she will be able to be my disciple.” The Times cited Harvard University Prof. Karen King as providing expert testimony supporting the claim and producing the papyrus.

In 2020 Ariel Sabar published a book demolishing the abhorrent anti-Christian hoax promoted —then, just as another one is now — by the New York Times, the Cryptocracy’s “most respected newspaper.”

This year the eight-day Hanukkah season began on December 25. The corporate media are filled with heart-warming stories upholding the absolute truth of the Hanukkah tale and recounting its beloved placed in custom and tradition. For example, in the December 27 issue of the Wall Street Journal (p. A13), in a lavish paean titled “Make Hanukkah Bright” the lofty nobility of Hanukkah is contrasted with the “materialistic and showy” Christmas of the gentiles: “God save us, too, from the inflatable lawn displays—an innovation our non-Jewish neighbors might have spared us.”

The article repeatedly cites the Talmud, not the Bible, as the basis for Hanukkah:

“It is a mitzvah’—a commandment, or good deed— ‘to place the Hanukkah lamp at the entrance to one’s house on the outside, so that all can see it’ says the Talmud, the sixth-century compilation of Jewish teachings. If one forgets to light candles at sunset, that’s OK, according to the 16th-century Sephardic sage Joseph Karo in his (Talmud-derived) code of Jewish law. ‘He should go ahead and light until people stop passing through the marketplace, which is approximately half an hour,’ Karo wrote, ‘because then the people are passing and coming home and thus the miracle is publicized…

“And in a time of danger,’ the Talmud says, ‘when the Gentiles issued decrees to prohibit kindling lights, the Jew places [the hanukkiah] on the table, and that is sufficient to fulfill his obligation….”

The Wall Street Journal concludes by pointing out who it is that is the focus of the holiday celebration: “the work of proclaiming the miracle—not only that of Hanukkah but the miracle of the Jews, who continue to live and spread the message of ethical monotheism to all the world…” (italics added).

What a contrast with the picture we Christians must live with in our holy season, (or at least the nearly eleven million readers of the New York Times) —images of Mary raped (or submitting) to the lust of a man who was not her husband —and fathering Jesus as a result of this unholy tryst. The circulation of that Big Lie on no more evidence than ancient hate speech is beneath contempt.

Alas, Hanukkah is not what it is said to be by the masters of PR. Hanukkah is in fact a Talmudic holiday that is a burlesque of the Biblical account of the Maccabees. I could say much more, but unlike the kind and angelic humanitarian progressives at the august New York Times, I will leave the folks who cherish their religious holiday in peace to celebrate it for the next eight days. If I publish a deconstruction of Hanukkah I will put distance between the time I debunk it and the holiday itself.

Meanwhile, let there be peace on earth to men and women of good will.

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Revisionist historian Michael Hoffman explores the ascendance of the Neoplatonic-Hermetic-Kabbalistic mind virus in his book The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome. He explicates the alchemical processing of humanity in Twilight Language. He is the author of eight other volumes of history and literature including Secret Societiesand Psychological Warfare, as well as Usury in Christendom, Judaism Discovered, and Adolf Hitler: Enemy of the German People. Michael has written extensive introductions to Alexander McCaul’s The Talmud Tested, Johann Andreas Eisenmenger’s Traditions of the Jews, and The 1582 Rheims New Testament.

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