The Pauline Epistels von Edwin Johnson

Johnson war auch einer jener genialen Geister, der klar sah und das Christentum als Erfindung ins 15./16. Jahrhundert schob.

Hier einige Zitate:
www.radikalkritik.de/PaulEpistles.pdf

In a chapter on the calendar, the invention of the golden number is ascribed either to
St. Bernard or to Julius Caesar—[148] a remarkable statement, as showing the
ignorance of all time-reckoning or perspective. I have long suspected that the few
passages which ascribe the reformation of the calendar to Julius Caesar are really
sixteenth-century inventions, and that the approximate solar year of 3651/4 days
was then determined on in the interests of the ecclesiastical system. Metal clocks are
referred to in a way which shows them to be recent inventions, "now possessed by
nearly all the West." There is an allusion, however, to the inventive activity which is
going on —another example of which is the pyxis of the mariner. (Seite 95)

Dies ist genau mein Thema.
Der julianische Kalender gehört wie der gregorianische Kalender ins 16. Jahrhundert!


Not to confuse my readers with too many details, I would beg them to keep in
mind the date 1533 as one of the best landmarks in chronology I am able at present
to point out. In that year Polydore is stated to have addressed Henry VIII., pointing
out that next to nothing was known of English history, and disparaging the few
monkish writings on the subject which had come into his hands. The same year
Leland is alleged to have set out on his literary tour through the monasteries, which
occupied him till 1539. If these dates be trustworthy, the results of his investigations
show that the whole scheme of Church history must have been laid down and
brought, as it were, to a short first edition during about the period 1500-1533.
But the bad dating of documents is the great scandal of the student. I cannot write
in the smooth and confident manner of the handbooks which are in general use,
because I know from repeated experiments and tests that we have not a " fifteenthcentury
" date that can be trusted, and that a great number of "sixteenth-century "
dates are false. But I may insist in perfect confidence that not in Italy itself could
Church literature have been commenced before the close of that dark age we call the
" fifteenth century." (Seite 10)

Polydore quotes also another passage from the same writer, by which he says it
appears beyond doubt that the two Apostles were the "Authors of the Religion
among the Romans." A few texts are further quoted on various points from "The
Apostle," and that is all. There is nothing whatever to show that the Pauline Epistles,
as we know them, had any special value or weight for the writer. On the contrary,
the writers on whom he mostly relies are the Latin Doctors of the " illustrious list."
And there need not have been any Greek writers at all in his hands —for all the use
he makes of them Latin texts suffice ; and it is one of many incidental proofs that
Latin, not Greek, is the proper and original language of the Church. So far the
extremely meagre, cold, uninteresting, and, it must be added, early, account of Paul
and his writings in the Historian of Inventors.
I would now ask the candid reader to consider with me the striking evidence
which this writer bears, as it seems, on the face of it, unconsciously, to the fallacy
and delusion of supposing that the legend of Paul had come down to him [19]
through an immense interval of time. A man who has anything like a real
perspective of past time before his imagination does not, and cannot, bound over
vast intervals without an effort. He does not see the events of a thousand years agone
as distinctly as he sees those of his own time. Yet this is what Polydore appears to
do, and what many of us, in our ignorance of a true chronological perspective, are in
the habit of doing. S.12

Let me, then, beg my readers to assume with me that the Church History is in
reality antedated by more than 1,200 years ; that it is, in fact, a sixteenth century
book in any case not older than that period ; that it is used, as far as we can ascertain
from the dates given us, for the first time by the historian of Inventors about the year
1533. But, again, I must warn against implicit reliance on such dates. That caution
being understood, I have not the slightest fear of misleading them. The Greek edition
of the History is stated to have been published at Paris by Stephens about the year
1544. There are some earlier dated Latin editions. S.17

But it is well known that Luther is said to have freely treated the New Testament
books as what I have been proving them to be : recent human productions. It must
have been known to the Augustinian monks, at all events to the scholars among
them, that the books had come from the monasteries of the order of St. Benedict, and
by monks of that order (of which the Augustines are merely a branch) could alone be
explained. The Abbot Trithemius of Spanheim is stated to have been a contemporary
of Luther. To him is ascribed one of the great catalogues of the " Illustrious Men " of
his order ; and I feel certain that he and the contemporary German Abbots were in
the secret of all that fictitious historical composition which it has been my business
to expose. S75

literature is distinctly a modern literature.
I cannot, of course, deal exhaustively with the subject in this place, but must
merely point out the cardinal evidences in favour of my opinions. In the first place, it
is utterly impossible to trace the existence of Hebrew books among the Jewish
people themselves beyond the epoch which I roughly date as "about 400 years ago,"
or the beginning of the Age of Publication. It is, indeed, alleged that the first Hebrew
book was printed at a place called Soncino, near Cremona, a little earlier; but the
student will discover, as [135] before, that the fifteenth century dates are not to be
trusted, and that sixteenth-century dates are very dubious.

But now close the Bible, and open the other traditional books of the Hebrews, for
which no Divine authority is claimed, and all becomes clear. The Cabbala, or Tradition,
proves to be no tradition at all, but an invention of the Revival of Letters. The
key-book is the "Sepher Juchasin" or " Book of Families," written in unpointed
Hebrew, and attributed to the pen of one of the Sephardim or Spanish and
Portuguese Jews, the Rabbi Abraham Zacuth or Zacuto. Though this little book has,
never been translated, its contents have passed into various compilations, and may
be conveniently consulted —for example, in the Latin works of Wolf or of Bartolocci.
The book is said to have been written about the year 1502 of our chronology.
[136] Now, what is the programme of this work? It professes to contain a history of
the events of the world from the Creation down to the time of the author. In
particular, it contains the list of the alleged illustrious Hebrew scholars, and so
corresponds to the Latin list to which I have so often referred. S.88

Dieses Buch wurde zwischenzeitlich von Israel Shamir ins Englische übersetzt. Der (leider etwas fehlerhafte) Text ist im Internet verfügbar:
www.betemunah.org/yohassin.html
Wir werden ihn noch genauer in Augenschein nehmen, insbesondere das Exodus- und das höchst erstaunliche Jesusdatum, als auch das noch erstaunlichere Statement über ihn.