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  WIERWILLE, V.P.-WAS JESUS A JEW
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V.P. Wierwille's controversial study arguing that Jesus was a Judean rather than
a Jew, tracing the historical and linguistic origins of the term through
biblical and secular history.

  Chapters: 5

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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
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    1. 1 Was Jesus A Jew?
    2. 2 CHAPTER I
    3. 3 CHAPTER II
    4. 4 CHAPTER III
    5. 5 CHAPTER IV

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  CHAPTER 1: 1 WAS JESUS A JEW?
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Was Jesus A Jew?

Another Study in Abundant Living by VICTOR PAUL WIERWILLE This book is in the
public domain. For more teachings by V. P. Wierwille, E. W. Bullinger and
others, go to: www.eternallyblessed.org The Scripture used throughout this study
is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.


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CHAPTER I

There is no foundation in fact for the implications and inferences that Jesus
was a Jew. Historical authorities and an abundance of other proofs establish the
fact that Jesus was not a Jew.

During His lifetime Jesus was known as a Judean by His contemporaries and
referred to Himself as a Judean and not as a Jew. Contemporary historians and
theologians of Jesus’ day, whose competence to pass upon this subject cannot be
challenged by anyone today, referred to Jesus during his lifetime here on earth
as a Judean and not as a Jew.

Inscribed upon the cross when Jesus was crucified were the Latin words Iesus
Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum. Latin was Pontius Pilate’s mother-tongue. No one will
question the fact that Pontius Pilate was well able to accurately express his
own ideas in his own language. The authorities competent to pass upon the
correct translation into English of the Latin Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum agree
that it is "Jesus the Nazarene Ruler of the Judeans."

Jesus was never regarded by Pontius Pilate nor by the Judeans among whom he
dwelt as king of the Jews. Pontius Pilate was ironic and sarcastic when he
ordered inscribed upon the cross the Latin words Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum.
Jesus was being mocked by Pontius Pilate, for Jesus had been denounced by the
Judeans.

Except for his few followers at that time in Judea all other Judeans abhorred
Jesus and detested his teachings and the things for which he stood. Pontius
Pilate was himself the ruler of the Judeans at the time he ordered inscribed
upon the cross the Latin words Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum.

Pontius Pilate was the administrator in Judea for the Roman Empire. The
inhabitants of Judea were Judeans to Pontius Pilate and not so-called Jews as
they have been called since the 18th century only. In the time of Pontius Pilate
in history there was no religious, racial or national group in Judea known as
Jews nor had there been any group so identified anywhere else. The Latin word
rex means ruler or leader. Latin was of course the official government language
in all the provinces administered by a local administrator of the Roman Empire.
This fact accounts for the inscription in Latin on the cross. With the invasion
of the British Isles by the Anglo-Saxons they substituted the Anglo-Saxon "king"
for the Latin equivalent rex. The adoption of "king" for rex did not
retroactively alter the meaning of the Latin rex to the Judeans in the time of
Jesus. In Latin in the life time of Jesus the name of the political subdivision
in the Middle East known in modern history as Palestine was Iudaea. It was then
administered by Pontius Pilate as administrator for the Roman Empire of which it
was then a part. The English for the Latin Iudaea is Judea. In Latin, Iudaeus is
the adjective for the noun Iudaea. In English Judean is the adjective for the
noun Judea. In Latin the genitive plural of Iudaeus is Iudaeorum. The English
translation of the genitive plural of Iudaeorum is "of the Judeans" . Inscribed
upon the cross on which Jesus was crucified was Iudaeorum. It is utterly
impossible to give any other English translation to Iudaeorum than "of the
Judeans". It is incredible to have any other translation into English of Iesus
Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum than "Jesus the Nazarene Ruler of the Judeans". At the
time Pontius Pilate was ordering the Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum inscribed
upon the cross the spiritual leaders of Judea were protesting to Pontius Pilate,
"not to write that Jesus was the ruler of the Judeans", but to inscribe instead
that Jesus "had said that He was the ruler of the Judeans" (John 19:21). The
spiritual leaders of Judea made strong protests to Pontius Pilate against his
reference to Jesus as Rex Iudaeorum, insisting that Pontius Pilate was not
familiar with or misunderstood the status of Jesus in Judea. These protests are
a matter of historical record. The English translation of the Greek of the
Gospel of John 19:21, reads, "Do not inscribe the monarch, basileus, of the
Judeans, Ioudaios, but that He himself said I am monarch, basileus, of the
Judeans, Ioudaios". Idoudaia in the Greek is "monarch" in English. Rex is the
nearest word in Latin for basileus in Greek. The English "ruler", or its
alternative "leader", define the sense of Latin rex and Greek basileus. The word
Jew did not come into existence until the year 1775. Prior to 1775 the word Jew
did not exist in any language. Jesus is referred to as a Jew for the first time
in the New Testament in the 18th Century. The history of the origin of the word
Jew in the English language leaves no doubt that the 18th century Jew is the
18th century contracted and corrupted English word for the 4th century Latin
Iudaeus found in St. Jerome’s Vulgate Edition. The greatly improved printing
presses made possible unlimited quantities of the New Testament. These revised
18th century editions of the earlier 14th century first translations into the
English language were then widely distributed throughout England and the
English-speaking world among families who had never possessed a copy of the New
Testament in any language. In these 18th century editions with revisions the
word Jew appeared for the first time in any English translation. The word Jew as
it was used in the 18th century editions has since continued in use in all
editions of the New Testament in the English language. The use of the word Jew
thus became established, and is so used to this day.

Countless copies of the revised 18th century editions of the Rheims (Douai) and
the King James translations of the New Testament into English were distributed
to clergy and the laity throughout the English speaking world. They did not know
the history of the origin of the English word “Jew” nor did they care. They
accepted the English word ‘Jew” as the only, and as the accepted form of the
Latin Iudaeus and the Greek Ioudaios. How could they be expected to have known
otherwise? It was a new English word to them. The best known 16th century
editions of the New Testament in English are the Rheims (Douai) Edition and the
King James Authorized Edition. The Rheims (Douai) translation of the New
Testament into English was first printed in 1582 but the word Jew did not appear
in it. The King James Authorized translation of the New Testament into English
was begun in 1604 and first published in 1611. The word Jew did not appear in
it. The word Jew appeared in both these well known editions in their 18th
century revised versions for the first time. The earliest version of the New
Testament in English from the Latin Vulgate Edition is the Wyclif Edition
published in 1380. In the Wyclif Edition Jesus is mentioned as one of the Iewes.
That was the 14th century English version of the Latin Iudaeus and was
pronounced "Hew-weeze", in the plural, and Iewe pronounced "hew-wee" in the
singular. In the 1380 Wyclif Edition in English, John 19:19, reads "Ithesus of
Nazareth king of the Iewes". Prior to the 14th century the English language
adopted the Anglo-Saxon "kyng" together with many other Anglo-Saxon words in
place of the Latin rex and the Greek basileus. In the Tyndale Edition of the New
Testament in English published in 1525 Jesus was likewise described as one of
the Iewes. In the Coverdale Edition, the Gospel of John 19:19, reads "Iesus of
Nazareth, Kyng of the Iewes". In the Cranmer Edition published in 1539 Jesus was
again described as one of the Iewes. In the Geneva Edition published in
1540-1557 Jesus was also described as one of the Iewes. In the Rheims Edition
published in 1582 Jesus was described as one of the Iewes. In the King James
Edition published in 1604-1611, also known as the Authorized Version Jesus was
described again as one of the Iewes. The forms of the Latin Iudaeus were used
which were current at the time these translations were made.


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CHAPTER II The secondary meanings of words often become the generally accepted
meanings of words formerly having entirely different meanings. The generally
accepted secondary meaning of the word Jew today with practically no exceptions
is made up of four almost universally-believed theories. These four theories are
that a so-called Jew is: (1) A person who today professes the form of religious
worship known as Judaism. (2) A person who claims to belong to a racial group
associated with the ancient Semites. (3) A person directly the descendant of an
ancient nation which thrived in Palestine in Bible history. (4) A person blessed
by Divine intentional design with certain superior cultural characteristics
denied to other racial, religious or national groups. That Jesus was a Jew in
the sense that during His life time Jesus professed and practiced the form of
religious worship known and practiced under the modern name of “Judaism” is
false and blasphemous. Jesus abhorred and denounced the form of religious
worship practiced in Judea in his lifetime and which is known and practiced
today under its new name Judaism. That religious belief was known as Pharisaism
in Jesus’ day. The eminent Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, the head of The Jewish
Theological Seminary of America, often referred to as "The Vatican of Judaism",
in his Foreword to his First Edition of "The Pharisees, the Sociological
Background of Their Faith", on page XXI states: "... Judaism... Pharisaism
became Talmudism, Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism, the Medieval Rabbinism
became Modern Rabbinism. But throughout these changes in name... the spirit of
the ancient Pharisees survives, unaltered..."

Rabbi Louis Finkelstein in his classic quoted from above traces the origin of
the form of religious worship practiced today under the present name "Judaism"
to its origin as "Pharisaism" in Judea in the time of Jesus. Rabbi Finkelstein
confirms what Rabbi Adolph Moses stated in "Yahvism, and other Discourses," in
collaboration with Rabbi H.G. Enelow, published in 1903 by the Louisville
Section of the Council of Jewish Women, in which Rabbi Adolph Moses, on page 1
states:

"Among the innumerable misfortunes which have befallen in its consequences is
the name of Judaism… Worse still, the Jews themselves, who have gradually come
to call their religion Judaism... Yet, neither in biblical nor post-biblical,
neither in talmudic, nor in much later times, is the term Judaism ever heard...
IT WAS FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, WRITING FOR THE INSTRUCTIONS OF GREEKS AND ROMANS, WHO
COINED THE TERM JUDAISM, in order to pit it against Hellenism...By Hellenism was
understood the civilization, comprising language, poetry, religion, art,
science, manners, customs, institutions, which had spread from Greece, its
original home, over vast regions of Europe, Asia and Africa... The Christians
eagerly seized upon the name… The Jews themselves, who intensely detested the
traitor Josephus, refrained from reading his works... HENCE THE TERM JUDAISM
COINED BY JOSEPHUS REMAINED ABSOLUTELY UNKNOWN TO THEM... IT WAS ONLY IN
COMPARATIVELY RECENT TIMES, AFTER THE JEWS BECAME FAMILIAR WITH MODERN CHRISTIAN
LITERATURE, THAT THEY BEGAN TO NAME THEIR RELIGION JUDAISM." (emphasis supplied)
The form of religious worship known as Pharisaism in Judea in the time of Jesus
was a religious practice based exclusively upon the Talmud. The Talmud in the
time of Jesus was the Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, all rolled into one, for those who
practiced Pharisaism.

Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer stated:

"The Talmud consists of 63 books of legal, ethical and historical writings of
the ancient rabbis. It was edited five centuries after the birth of Jesus. It is
a compendium of law and lore. IT IS THE LEGAL CODE WHICH FORMS THE BASIS OF
JEWISH RELIGIOUS LAW AND IT IS THE TEXTBOOK USED IN THE TRAINING OF
RABBIS."(emphasis supplied)


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CHAPTER III

Relentless research has established as equally true that the so-called Jews in
Eastern Europe at no time in their history could be correctly regarded as the
direct lineal descendants of the legendary lost ten tribes of the Bible. The
so-called Jews in Eastern Europe in modern history cannot legitimately point to
a single ancient ancestor who ever set foot on the soil of Palestine in Bible
history. Research also reveals that the so-called Jews in Eastern Europe were
never Semites, are not Semites now, nor can they ever be regarded as Semites at
any future time by any stretch of the imagination. Exhaustive research also
irrevocably rejects as a fantastic fabrication the generally accepted belief by
Christians that the so-called Jews in Eastern Europe are the legendary Chosen
People so vocally publicized by some of the Christian clergy from their pulpits.
In the 1st Century B.C. the Khazars had invaded Eastern Europe from their
homeland in Asia. The Khazars invaded Eastern Europe via the land route between
the north end of the Caspian Sea and the South end of the Ural Mountains. The
Khazars were not Semites. They were an Asiatic Mongolic nation. They are
classified by modern anthropologists as Turco-Finns racially. The homeland of
the Khazars was in the heart of Asia. They were a very warlike nation. The
Khazars were driven out of Asia by the nations in Asia with whom they were
continually at war. The Khazars invaded Eastern Europe to escape further defeats
in Asia. The very warlike Khazars did not find it difficult to subdue and
conquer the 25 peaceful agricultural nations occupying approximately 1,000,000
square miles in Eastern Europe. In a comparatively short period the Khazars
established the largest and most powerful kingdom in Europe.

Why and how has the origin and history of the Khazars and Khazar Kingdom been so
well concealed from the world for so many centuries? Their relationship to the
origin and early history of the so-called Jews in Eastern Europe was one of
history’s best kept secrets until recent years. The Khazars were a pagan nation
when they invaded Eastern Europe. Their religious worship was a mixture of
phallic worship and other forms of idolatrous worship practiced in Asia by pagan
nations. This form of worship continued until the 7th century. The vile forms of
sexual excesses indulged in by the Khazars as their form of religious worship
produced a degree of moral degeneracy the Khazar’s king could not endure. In the
7th century King Bulan, ruler at that time of the Khazar Kingdom, decided to
abolish the practice of phallic worship and other forms of idolatrous worship
and make one of the three monotheistic religions, about which he knew very
little, the new state religion. After a historic session with representatives of
the three monotheistic religions King Bulan decided against Christianity and
Islam and selected as the future state religion of the Khazar Kingdom the
religious worship then known as Talmudism, and now known and practiced as
Judaism.

King Bulan and 4,000 feudal nobles were promptly converted by rabbis imported
from Babylonia for that event. Phallic worship and other forms of idolatry were
thereafter forbidden. The Khazar king invited large numbers of rabbis to come
and open synagogues and schools to instruct the population in the new form of
religious worship. It was now the state religion. The converted Khazars were the
first population of so-called JEWS in Eastern Europe. The following is from
Volume IV, pages 1 to 5, of the Jewish Encyclopedia. The Jewish Encyclopedia
refers to the Khazars as "Chazars". The two spellings are optional according to
the best authorities.

"CHAZARS: A people of Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with
THE VERY BEGINNINGS OF THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF RUSSIA... driven on by the
nomadic tribes of the steppes and by THEIR OWN DESIRE FOR PLUNDER AND REVENGE...
In the second half of the sixth century the Chazars moved west ward... The
kingdom of the Chazars was firmly established in MOST OF SOUTH RUSSIA LONG
BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE RUSSIAN MONARCH BY THE VARANGIANS (855)... At this
time the kingdom of the Chazars stood at the height of its power AND WAS
CONSTANTLY AT WAR... At the end of the 8th century... the chagan (king) of the
Chazars and his grandees, TOGETHER WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF HIS HEATHEN PEOPLE,
EMBRACED THE JEWISH RELIGION... The Jewish population in the entire domain of
the Chazars, in the period between the seventh and tenth centuries, MUST HAVE
BEEN CONSIDERABLE... about THE NINTH CENTURY, IT APPEARS AS IF ALL THE CHAZARS
WERE JEWS AND THAT THEY HAD BEEN CONVERTED TO JUDAISM ONLY A SHORT TIME
BEFORE... It was one of the successors of Bulan named Obadiah who regenerated
the kingdom and STRENGTHENED THE JEWISH RELIGION. He invited Jewish scholars to
settle in his dominions, and founded SYNAGOGUES AND SCHOOLS. The people were
instructed in the Bible, Mishnah, and the TALMUD and in the ’divine service of
the hazzanism’... In their writings the CHAZARS USED THE HEBREW LETTERS... THE
CHAZAR LANGUAGES PREDOMINATED... Obadiah was succeeded by his son Hezekiah; the
latter by his son Manasseh; Manasseh by Hanukkah, a brother of Obadiah; Hanukkah
by his son Isaac; Isaac by his son Moses (or Manasseh II); the latter by his son
Nisi; and Nisi by his son Aaron II. King Joseph himself was a son of Aaron, AND
ASCENDED THE THRONE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE CHAZARS RELATING TO
SUCCESSION... The king and twenty-five wives, all of royal blood, and sixty
concubines, all famous beauties. Each one slept in a separate tent and was also
watched by a eunuch... THIS SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THE BEGINNING OF THE DOWNFALL OF
THE CHAZAR KINGDOM... The Russians Varangians established themselves at Kiev
until the final conquest of the Chazars by the Russians... After a hard fight
the Russians conquered the Chazars... Four years later the Russians conquered
all the Chazarian territory east of the Azov... Many members of the Chazarian
royal family emigrated to Spain... Some went to Hungary, BUT THE GREAT MASS OF
THE PEOPLE REMAINED IN THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY." The greatest historian on the
origin and the history of the so-called Jews in Eastern Europe was Professor
Heinrich Graetz, He points out in his famous "History of the Jews" that when
so-called Jews in other countries heard a rumor about so-called Jews in the
Khazar Kingdom they believed these converted Khazars to be the lost ten tribes.
These rumors were no doubt responsible for the legend which states that
Palestine was the homeland of the converted Khazars. On page 141 in his "History
of the Jews" Professor H. Graetz states:

"The Chazars professed a coarse religion, which was combined with sensuality and
lewdness... After Obadiah came a long series of Jewish Chagans (kings), for
ACCORDING TO A FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF THE STATE ONLY JEWISH RULERS WERE PERMITTED TO
ASCEND THE THRONE... For some time THE JEWS OF OTHER COUNTRIES HAD NO KNOWLEDGE
OF THE CONVERSION OF THIS POWERFUL KINGDOM TO JUDAISM, and when at last a vague
rumor to this effect reached them, THEY WERE OF THE OPINION THAT CHAZARIA WAS
PEOPLED BY THE REMNANT OF THE FORMER TEN TRIBES." When the Khazars in the 1st
Century B.C. invaded Eastern Europe their mother-tongue was an Asiatic language,
referred to in the Jewish Encyclopedia as the "Khazar language". They were
primitive Asiatic dialects without any alphabet or any written form. When King
Bulan was converted in the 7th Century he decreed that the Hebrew characters he
saw in the Talmud and other Hebrew documents were to become the alphabet for the
Khazar language. The Hebrew characters were adapted to the phonetics of the
spoken Khazar language. The Khazars adopted the characters of the so-called
Hebrew language in order to provide a means for providing a written record of
their speech. The adoption of the Hebrew characters had no racial, political or
religious implication.

Since the conquest of the Khazars by the Russians and the disappearance of the
Khazar Kingdom the language of the Khazars is known as Yiddish. For about six
centuries the so-called Jews of Eastern Europe have referred to themselves while
still resident in their native Eastern European countries as Yiddish by
nationality. They identified themselves as Yiddish rather than as Russian,
Polish, Galician, Lithuanian, Rumanian, Hungarian or by the nation of which they
were citizens. They also referred to the common language they all spoke as
Yiddish.

Before it became known as the Yiddish language, the mother-tongue of the Khazars
added many words to its limited ancient vocabulary as necessity required. These
words were acquired from the languages of its neighboring nations with whom they
had political, social or economic relations. Languages of all nations add to
their vocabularies in the same way. The Khazars adapted words to their
requirements from the German, the Slavonic and the Baltic languages. The Germans
had a much more advanced civilization than their Khazar neighbors and the
Khazars sent their children to German schools and universities. The Yiddish
language is not a German dialect. Many people are led to believe so because
Yiddish has borrowed so many words from the German language. If Yiddish is a
German dialect acquired from the Germans then what language did the Khazars
speak for the 1,000 years they existed in Eastern Europe before they acquired
culture from the Germans? The Khazars must have spoken some language when they
invaded Eastern Europe. What was that language? When did they discard it? How
did the entire Khazar population discard one language and adopt another all of a
sudden? The idea is too absurd to discuss. Yiddish is the modern name for the
ancient mother-tongue of the Khazars with added German, Slavonic and Baltic
words.

Yiddish must not be confused with "Hebrew" because they both use the same
characters in their alphabets. There is not a word of Yiddish in ancient Hebrew
nor is there one word of ancient Hebrew in Yiddish. It must not be confused with
words like Jewish.

Directly north of the Khazar Kingdom at the height of its power a small Slavic
state was organized in 820 A.D. on the south shore of the Gulf of Finland. This
infant nation was even smaller than our state of Delaware. This newly-born state
however, was the embryo which developed into the Russian Empire.

During the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th centuries the rapidly expanding Russian
nation gradually swallowed up the Khazar Kingdom, its neighbor directly to the
south. The conquest of the Khazar Kingdom by the Russians supplies history with
the explanation for the presence after the 13th century of the large number of
so-called Jews in Russia and in Europe. After the destruction of the Khazar
Kingdom they were thereafter no longer known as Khazars but as the Yiddish
populations of these many countries. They so refer to themselves today. Their
common language, their common culture, their common religion, and their common
racial characteristics classify them all beyond any question of doubt with the
Khazars who invaded Eastern Europe in the last century B.C. and were converted
to Talmudism in the 7th century.


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CHAPTER IV

Talmudism, the civil and religious code of the Pharisees, most likely would have
disappeared with all its contemporary creeds and cults but for the conversion of
the Khazars to Talmudism in the 7th century. At that time Talmudism was well on
its way towards complete oblivion. In Russia at that period in history it was
the custom as in other Christian countries in Europe at that time to take an
oath, vow or pledge of loyalty to the rulers, the nobles, the feudal landholders
and others in the Name of Jesus Christ. It was after the conquest of the Khazars
by the Russians that the wording of the Kol Nidre, All Vows prayer was altered.
The new altered version of the Kol Nidre, All Vows prayer is referred to in the
Talmud as "the law of revocation in advance". The Kol Nidre, All Vows prayer was
regarded as a law. The effect of this "LAW OF REVOCATION IN ADVANCE" obtained
for all, who recited it each year on the Eve of the Day of Atonement, divine
dispensation from all obligations acquired under oaths, vows and pledges to be
made or taken in the COMING YEAR. The recital of the Kol Nidre, All Vows prayer
on the eve of the Day of Atonement released those so-called Jews from any
obligation under oaths, vows or pledges entered into during the NEXT TWELVE
MONTHS. The altered version of the Kol Nidre created serious difficulties for
the so-called Jews when its wording became public property. It apparently did
not remain a secret very long, although the Talmud states "the law of revocation
in advance was not made public". The altered version of the Kol Nidre soon
became known as the "Jews Vow" and cast serious doubt upon oaths, vows or
pledges given to Christians by so-called Jews. Christians know that oaths, vows
or pledges are worthless when given by Jews. This was the basis for so-called
"discrimination" by governments, nobles, feudal landholders and others who
required oaths of allegiance and loyalty from those who entered their service.

SOURCE MATERIAL USED Jewish Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Britannica "Facts are
Facts" by Benjamin H. Freedman Others listed in the Script


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