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The Christian world knows that certain things in the Bible are symbols of Spiritual things. For instance, it is known that the land of Canaan stands for a heavenly state of Hie. But it has not been known that the whole Bible, in every least part, is symbolic of spiritual things. Every person, place and thing, every historical event, ritual of worship, yea, every word of both the Old and New Testaments, contains a deeper spiritual sense or meaning. This deeper, spiritual sense involves and concerns solely the Lord Jesus Christ, His Divinely Human things of Love and Faith, and the manner in which these things of Love and Faith are received by men, in their regeneration. Presented here are lectures on the symbolic character of the sacred scripture to aid in a greater understanding and deepening of faith.
Knohl’s chief claim is “Jesus was the heir and successor of the Messiah of Qumran.” The latter is described in two hymns in fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Knohl argues that he was a certain Menachem, a friend and supporter of Herod who was removed from his position of leadership in the Jewish community when he made his messianic aspirations public after Herod’s death. Knohl includes the hymns in an appendix, along with discussion of the influence of the Messiah of Qumran on Jesus’ messianic consciousness and the influence of the Roman vision of redemption in Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue on the Messiah of Qumran. Readers who share Knohl’s questioning attitude about “the Jewish context of Jesus’ messianic career” will find the brief, accessible book fascinating and informative, as will readers more generally interested in the visions of redemption that emerged out of the rich religious context of Rome in the centuries before Jesus.
Where did God come from? What do the bible stories really tell us? Who or what was Jesus Christ? This book challenges everything we think we know about the nature of religion: The ancient fertility cult at the heart of Christianity; The living power of cultic rites and symbols; The sacred mushroom as the emblem and embodiment of divinity; The secret meaning of biblical myths; and The language of religion that links us to our ancestors The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross sets out John Allegro’s quest through a family tree of languages to find the truth about where Christianity came from.
