I have been reading\u00c2\u00a0a Wikipedia article about a Jewish character named Yeshu who lived around 100 BC.\u00c2\u00a0 He is mentioned in\u00c2\u00a0ancient\u00c2\u00a0Hebrew writings and a medieval Pope made the Jews remove all such Yeshu references from their books.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily the Jews hid away\u00c2\u00a0uncensored copies of the Babylonian Talmud and other writings so we know about this Yeshu dude who pre-dates Christ, has a mother named Miriam, is born out of wedlock and gets executed for apostasy or magic or both.<\/p>\n
Here is an excerpt that has Jesus’ mother Mary called “magdalene”.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Confusing, but most fascinating.<\/p>\n
\nThe character of Miriam the dresser of woman’s hair is of interest. (Her name is also mentioned briefly in Chagigah 4b<\/em> in the Babylonian Talmud where it is used together with Miriam the teacher of children simply as an arbitrary choice of names in illustrating a point.) Some suggest that the expression “dresser of women’s hair” is a euphemism for a woman of ill repute. The original Aramiac for her name is Miriam megadela neshaya<\/em> in which many see Mary Magdalene. Some have thus identified her with Mary Magdalene while others are more cautious merely suggesting dresser of women’s hair<\/em> as a possible meaning of Magdalene alternate to the traditional understanding of the name as a toponymic surname. -\u00c2\u00a0 from the Talmud,\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yeshu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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The above\u00c2\u00a0is\u00c2\u00a0from the\u00c2\u00a0Talmud\u00c2\u00a0and is\u00c2\u00a0calling Mother Mary “magdala” meaning dresser of women’s hair.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Mary is also referred to in one place in the Babylonian Talmud as “Miriam, teacher of children”.\u00c2\u00a0 So maybe the Miriam e mara in the supposed Jesus family tomb was a “master” teacher.\u00c2\u00a0 We are told “e mara” means “known as a master”.\u00c2\u00a0 Then there is the other Mary buried there, too, the one who is supposed to be Jesus’ mother and spells her name Maria in the Greek fashion.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some scholars think\u00c2\u00a0one of those Marys is Mary Salome, Jesus’ aunt.<\/p>\n
Why oh why are so many of them named Mary?– we can’t sort ’em all out!\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 The first Miriam in recorded history, sister of Moses was a teacher of the Children of Israel, right? She even taught their messiah, Moses.\u00c2\u00a0 A teacher of the Messiah.\u00c2\u00a0 And prophetess, seeress, songstress…\u00c2\u00a0 I have\u00c2\u00a0a cool tome called The Five Books of Miriam<\/a>, meaning the Torah as if SHE had written it, not her brother. Here is the first sentence:\u00c2\u00a0“TORAH SPEAKS: In the beginning, Shekhinah, the Holy-One-Who-Dwells-in-This-World, spins the world into being: light, water, earth, heavenly bodies, seed-bearing plants, sea creatures, birds, animals-and Adam…”<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n
Anyway, the dresser of women’s hair title is partially explained in the Wiki excerpt above.\u00c2\u00a0 The word was supposedly a euphemism for whoredom.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, what else could it mean!\u00c2\u00a0 Women in the ancient world were virgins or prostitutes, nothing in between. Yeah, right.\u00c2\u00a0 Dubiousness aside, the fact that hairdressers were supposedly whores is probably why a woman with the epithet Magdalene got labelled a prostitute.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jewish scholars who read the New Testament and encounter Mary Magdalene know that Magdalene is Greek for Magdala (Aramaic) and that it means dresser of women’s hair.\u00c2\u00a0 They have no problem therefore seeing why she was called a prostitute.<\/p>\n
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All of this is from a search I was doing about the Yeshu of 100 BC:\u00c2\u00a0
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yeshu#The_medieval_Toledot_Yeshu_narratives<\/p>\nNow don’t let the stuff on the page above about Yeshu shake your faith.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeshua “bore” a lot of archetypes. He embodied them just as Magdalene embodied Sophia, Isis, Inana.\u00c2\u00a0
\nYeshua\/Jesus was Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis, Dionysius and the Son of God\/ess.\u00c2\u00a0 Some
\nMoses-like tales were added to his life (slaughter of babies) and transfiguration on
\na mountain.\u00c2\u00a0 These tales of Yeshu were also added to him or attributed to him.<\/p>\nKatia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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