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godman. As Barnstone says, "Indeed, because of the messianic nature of Jewish Pseudepigrapha, they were favorite readings of the early Christians and many of them were altered and `Christianized,' falsified if you will, to make them reveal Christian truths."25 In their cunning priestcraft, the mutilating Christians later accused the Jews of removing material from the originals. Nevertheless, some of the Christian-like passages are apparently genuine, such that they constitute proof that the forgers of Christianity were of the same school as the Testaments writers and used their texts.

These testaments were written and/or interpolated for the express purpose of: 1. raising the Semites over the other "sons of Noah"; 2. uniting the tribes of Levi and Judah as the rulers over other Israelites and over the Gentiles; and 3. laying the foundation for the coming king, who, in anticipation of the destruction of Jerusalem/Judea, was to be made into a spiritual "son of God" as well.

The Testament of Simeon, for example, seeks to raise the Semites, or "sons of Shem," over the Japhethites and Hamites. This book states: "Then the Mighty One of Israel shall glorify Shem. For the Lord God shall appear on earth, and Himself save men." Thus, the Semites will subjugate all other races and God Himself will incarnate ostensibly as a Semite, according to the latter sentence, which is a Christian interpolation. As such, the Semitic godman will represent the tribes of Levi and Judah over the other Israelites, and provide salvation for all the nations, as Simeon also says:

And now, my children, obey Levi and Judah, and be not lifted up against these two tribes, for from them shall arise unto you the salvation of God. For the Lord shall raise up from Levi as it were a High Priest, and from Judah as it were a King, God and man, He shall save all the Gentiles and the race of Israel.26

In this union of Levi and Judah is the spiritual "savior" plus the temporal "messiah," which is equivalent to "Jesus the Christ."

Furthermore, in the Testament of Levi, which was purportedly written between 109-107 BCE, appears this stunning blueprint for Christianity:

And behold I am clear from your ungodliness and transgression, which ye shall commit in the end of the ages against the Savior of the World, Christ, acting godlessly, deceiving Israel, and stirring up against it great evils from the Lord. And ye shall deal lawlessly together with Israel, so He shall not bear with Jerusalem because of your wickedness; but the veil of the temple shall be rent, so as not to cover your shame. And ye shall be scattered as captives among the Gentiles, and shall be for a reproach and for a curse there. For the house which the Lord shall choose shall be called Jerusalem, as is contained in the book of Enoch the righteous.27

If this passage is not a shameless Christian interpolation, forged after the fall of Jerusalem, it is quite obviously a seed from which the Christ myth sprouted. It also verifies the importance of the Book of Enoch.

The Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha provide a connection between not only Judaism and orthodox Christianity but also Judaism and Gnosticism, evidenced in such texts as the Wisdom of Solomon, the Haggadah, and the Wisdom of Jesus.

The Wisdom of Jesus, Son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus

For obvious reasons, the title of the pre-Christian "Wisdom of Jesus" is often represented without the "Jesus," as "Wisdom of Sirach" or "Ecclesiasticus." Purportedly written around 180 BCE by "Jesus" and translated into Greek by his grandson "Jesus," the text evidently represents the lineage of the pre-Christian Joshua/Jesus cultists. The Wisdom of Jesus contains hundreds of wisdom sayings, including Old Testament aphorisms such as, "To fear the Lord is the source of wisdom." Here, as in Gnosticism, wisdom is identified as a female entity (Hokmah/ Sophia). This lengthy book also contains several New Testament Sayings of Jesus, or Logia Iesou, and is without a doubt Therapeutan, in that it prescribes the putting of oneself in the hands of a spiritual physician