New Testament Authors by Roman 'Flavian' Calpurnius Piso - Abelard Reuchlin 4/5

Who is Abelard Reuchlin?

Abelard Reuchlin is an American essayist . He is known for his conspiracy theory on the origin of Christianity . He writes his writings from a Judaic point of view. According to Reuchlin, the old aristocratic Roman family Calpurnius Piso conspired to gain political and spiritual control over the Roman Empire by creating a new religion based on the Jewish Torah to combat the popularity of Judaism and its political power. Jews accounted for 10% of the population of the empire. The historian Flavius Josephus , who Reuchlin believes that his real name was Arius Calpurnius Piso.

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Who was Calpurnius Piso?

The gens Calpurnia was a plebeian family at Rome, which first appears in history during the third century BC. The first of the gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Calpurnius Piso in 180 BC, but from this time their consulships were very frequent, and the family of the Pisones became one of the most illustrious in the Roman state. The principal praenomina of the Calpurnii were Lucius, Gaius, Marcus, and Gnaeus.

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What is New Testament?

The New Testament is the second part of the Christian biblical canon. The first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible. The New Testament discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. Christians regard both the Old and New Testaments together as sacred scripture. The New Testament (in whole or in part) has frequently accompanied the spread of Christianity around the world. It reflects and serves as a source for Christian theology and morality.

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What was Flavian?

The Flavian dynasty was a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69-96 AD. This encompass the reigns of Vespasian (69-79 AD), and his two sons Titus (79-81 AD) and Domitian (81-96 AD). The Flavians rose to power during the civil war of 69, known as the Year of the Four Emperors. The Flavian dynasty was unique among the four dynasties of the Principate Era, in that it was only one man and his two sons, without any extended or adopted family.

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What is Roman?

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization. From the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire. The civilization began as an Italic settlement in the Italian peninsula, dating from the 8th century BC, that grew into the city of Rome and which subsequently gave its name to the empire over which it ruled and to the widespread civilisation the empire developed. The Roman empire expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world, though still ruled from the city, with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world's population) and covering 5.0 million square kilometres at its height in AD 117.

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