SHOCKING Truth About Joseph in Genesis They're Not Telling You! | MythVision Documentary 

I hope this video was enjoyable and educational! I have several more coming soon. One on the Myth of Sodom and Gomorrah, Judah & Tamar, The Moses Myth and The Myth of Samson. Let me know your favorite part of this documentary. Thanks.

Understanding ancient literature as literature > trying to believe ancient literature as history. Great work as always, Derek.

Man you have so much content and the level you are on is so far ahead of possibly everyone else I've listened to. So cool you put so much effort into these hour plus videos.

Chapters: 0:00 Intro 5:45 Life of Joseph In Genesis 8:39 Joseph Romance Myth 11:53 Romance In Ancient Narratives: From Greece To Egypt 15:47 The Shipwrecked Sailor & The Odyssey 19:02 The Myth of Joseph Connecting To The Odyssey 20:46 Joseph’s Mistakes And Their Consequences 26:09 Joseph And Odysseus: Triumph Over Death 44:25 Athena’s Unique Recognition 53:58 Eumaios’ Delayed Recognition 55:10 Telemachos’ Delayed Recognition 58:22 Argos’ Heartfelt Recognition 103:02 Odysseus And Penelope: A Delayed Reunion 105:05 Euryklea’s Delayed Recognition 116:20 Eumaios And Philotios: Recognition Scenes 119:54 Penelope’s Recognition Scene 120:57 Laertes’ Delayed Recognition 128:15 Recognition Scenes In The Myth of Joseph 133:35 Dreams In The Odyssey And Joseph’s Myth 144:40 Odysseus And Joseph: The Trickster Lineage of Jacob 147:39 Joseph In Genesis 34 And Odysseus In The Trojan War 158:31 Connecting Joseph’s Story, Aesop’s Life and Ancient Narratives 203:17 Then Stolen Cup Theme 226:05 Conclusion

Neville Goddard spent his career explaining why these stories were written. They are important as symbolic tools explaining the potential each person has . . . .

Definitely looking forward to watching ❤ 12:00 p.m. noon 3:00p.m. E.S.T. hope everyone is with me on this one😂 As the man says; "We Are MythVision."💯✨✨🤩

The story of Joseph is the most romantic (not in a sexual way, in a heart catching way) in the Bible. It doesn’t matter if it’s based on historical facts or not, it’s just a beautiful story. The reunion at the end…so good!

Brooch is easily read as it is spelled but the French word for this piece of jewelry is correctly pronounced as broach (bro-ch). You had me looking up what a brewch was LoL. Thanks for this video. It's amazing how pretty much the entire Bible is written from ancient mythology and Jewish fables. Great work ❤

Joesph has always been my favourite story. Recently went and watched a production of it, it was very moving. Great video 👍

I love this compare and contrast with multiple legends. Great work!

Joseph us my fav too! I still have the DreamWorks movie about him.

This format is a lot of fun 😊 I really enjoyed that.

The Egyptians believed that a family's first ancestor was continually reincarnated through his descendants. Therefore it may be that it's the descendants who are meeting the family for the first time, hence the lack of recognition. These stories were ways for people to claim relationships with people when they needed sanctuary in their lands, etc.

Amazing Work Derek Thank you,going to watch it again now

The true origins of Christianity, are deeply rooted in Paganism…

Your best work yet! And because I have lectured on Moses and the exodus I am looking forward to your take on the subject.

This video is likely to be extremely awesome. I always forget Joseph’s Egyptian name - the Torah mentioned that he had a title in Egyptian - it occurs only once in the text.

This is exactly what I've been seeking! Subscribed and eager to be inspired further! _ "Embrace your potential; it leads to a unique journey."

Can't wait for this 😁

Seeing the book of Genesis used to justify the occupation of Israel and war with anyone who objects really has me furious at believers atm.

WOW!!!! I already commented yeet felt I needed to again...good job, excellent video!

Hope this type of story, comparing B(b)ible stories with other myths, continues. Extremely helpful!!! The B(b)ible is losing its impact on me. My hope is that this type of information reaches those religious people who wish to change the Constitution of the United States, so we can keep church and state separate.

Stunning! great visuals .. thank you

Geez! You are killing me Buddy! God love ya! But I need a dinning room table chart for this! ❤ I’m trying to keep up as my son knows these guys but shoot me! 😅

Thank you for your Wisdom Understanding and Knowledge.

I wish you’d talk more about the parallels between his story and a foreigner that resided somewhere in what is now modern-day India that started as a slave and rose to almost the equivalent of king. I’ve heard this repeated as history, but I think it’s at least in one of the vedas maybe.

I like that you are using artwork from The WBTS publication My Book Of Bible Stories. Brings back that old feeling of fear of Jehovah and what he will to to an unworthy sinner like me.

Always so much hidden from us. According to the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will rule over all".

Please, make about judah as soon as possible

I'd also like to point out that shakespere takes a different angle to the recognition scenes where positive concrete evidence is not proof of loyalty, but of disloyalty/infidelity.

cant wait to see by the way 🇮🇱🇵🇸lets hope peace will return to the land this famous character was from

Good job 👍

Odysseus was seen as upright by the gods? Tell that to posiedon! "In the Odyssey, Poseidon is notable for his hatred of Odysseus who blinded the god's son, the Cyclops Polyphemus. The enmity of Poseidon prevents Odysseus's return home to Ithaca for many years. Odysseus is even told, notwithstanding his ultimate safe return, that to placate the wrath of Poseidon will require one more voyage on his part." "Homer and Hesiod suggest that Poseidon became lord of the sea when, following the overthrow of his father Cronus, the world was divided by lot among Cronus' three sons; Zeus was given the sky, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the sea, with the Earth and Mount Olympus belonging to all three." "He was the protector of seafarers and the guardian of many Hellenic cities and colonies. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, Poseidon was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes" "If surviving Linear B clay tablets can be trusted, the names po-se-da-wo-ne and Po-se-da-o ("Poseidon") occurs with greater frequency than does di-u-ja ("Zeus")." What is odyssey? Is it a biography, is it a fictional narrative, is a history. The problem arises when we try to corner ancient literature by anachronistic standards. If the illiad is any example the trojan war is not represented by a single distruction layer but many. The story of gilgamesh reptesents not one flood event, even so named, but many mesopotamian floods. Likewise the Odysses is not a single epic sea journey but many. The odyssey is the combination of no less than three 'got lost at sea and returned home' stories. These stories are focused by the late bronze age attack whereby many aegean peoples ended up in SW Asia and Egypt, some eventually finding their way back to greece to tell the stories. If we can imagine stories of the founding of spanish or anglo america, colonist come to a new land, they leave some colonist, they return, and later here stories about how some or all were wiped out and they create monsterous stories to explain why they git wiped out. Occasionally the British would come accros basque fishing boats on the shores of America, but there is no evidence of the Basque, we have stories of seafarers in the late medieval period of travelers landing on islands and eaten by cannibals, stories that extend to the colonial period (Cabeza de vaca). And the odyssey fits this genre of legend telling, several versions of one, or different stiries were combined into one literature and molded to fit a single hero. A plot is added. But lets think very carefully about what is going on here. The period is 1200 to 1000 BCE, men are being scattered by calamity, they end up in SW Asia, and then after suffering some trial, they or their descendant return home. The language that homer uses to write the odyssey is not derived from linear B, but from phonecian. The greek alphabet evolved starting in the late 9th century BCE reaching the SE regions of greek and spreading circumaegean in the early 8th century. This occurred shortly before homer was born. As we should note that there is no evidence in the pre-deuteronomistic period of a Moses and the theology of a Moses cult is not evident in Judges or 1 or 2 Samuel. This covers 1100 BCE to 1005 BCE. The current profile of a incoming desert Yahweh cult basically ranges from 1010 BCE to the late 9th century BCE, about the same time phonecians, whose ports are only 50 to 100 miles away from Sechem, Jerusalem and Bethlehem are spreading the phonecian alphabet to the Aegean. It is in this trading context that Homer putatively is born. In fact there is the claim that Homer was a slave who came from the East, possibly phonecia itself and learned greek at an early age. Prior to this there appears to have been an Ea/Yahu god in the levant who was not chimeric. And while we can disagree about the mythic/legendary status of the Exodus, one thing is starting to clarify. 1. Mesopotamia and Egypt had theological influneces in SW Arabia prior to the LBAC 2. That Yahwish inscriptional development comes from the south, likely the region of Yathrib (which itself dates to the 9th century BCE) and proceeds northward. 3. That the early Yahweh god and its high priest would be very different from later deuteronomistic portrayals and moreso in 4th century scribes. 4. That the moses legend and Judges represent two lines of originally independent theology. Again, we have to ask the question, where are the remnant centers of power during the LBAC. Its not until the 9th century, late, that assyria reemerges from its trouble with the Aramean tribes. Egypt is still pretty much an african polity. But the first to emerge were the Syro-anatolian city states and phonecia. These are the power entities. And a signifyer of this power to communucate is right in front of your eyes. Early Linear script, the transitional vernacular that evolved from protosiniatic became phonecian, then aramaic and paleohebrew and then assyrian and babylonian administrative aramaic, modern hebrew and syriac. All of this transformation of power (Akkadian cunieform to phonecian) is occurring for one reason. The phonecians and syroanatolians were the first to recover from the LBAC and would be the first to send word back to greece about the fate of the pelestia who made their way to SW Asia. The power of Phonecia was it could reestablish and expand trade and trade creates wealth. This I think is the proper context for the Odyssey. Homer reflects a theology not shared by his surrounding greek contemporaries, He (they) are writing in a new script only known by the trading elite taught to them by phonecians, and he is writing about story of sea travels from the Aegean to points south of the Aegean, in the direction of where phonecia and its colonies were. This is the archaeological context, not some foolishness by later writers.

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Bahaullah is believed to be the "return" of Joseph, the first "revealed" book of the Bab is the interpretation tafsir/Ta'vil of Surah of yusef yusof Joseph. Tell It to the bahais! Best

Eumaios, the king's son turned swineherd, sounds like the "Prodigal Son".

The thumbnail made me realize Joseph looks like Kefka from FFVI

Nice images

Damn I missed the start. Does he post these later in the day

Thanks!

Great

Not gonna lie, I have speculated that Joseph may be queer coded. Not because of the coat colours, just the fact that he displayed similar traits to his Dad that may be considered out of the masculine norm at the time. Plus, the fact that Joseph was so open and proud about it to the point that his brothers conspired against him (Joseph did not conform). He rejected the advances of the wife of the Egyptian, he's not listed as one of the twelve tribes (his 2 sons usually are). Idk, he seems pretty bisexual/queer coded to me. This is entirely speculative on my part, but he is one of the characters that caught my eye. That and Jonathan (Saul's son/David's best friend).

hamlet is the odyseus character in hamlet, so when laertes murders hamlet at the end of the play, it's like the most extreme untimely end to that odyseus/hamlet character. makes me wonder though, if the play had a few more acts, would hamlet jr haunt someone in claudius' new dynasty just like old hamlet did? (anyway, tragedy is where everything goes all wrong, and I think shakespere was looking for new ways for the epic hero to have everything fall apart)

Joseph looks like Timothée Chalomet at 28:19

Mind blown! 😮

From the first 5 minutes Herodotus said they worship Dionysis in that area of canna so how’s that a stretch???

19:24 what movie is this from?

I'm enjoying these videos, but am amazed at the laziness in proofreading the texts displayed. For example, in mentioning the Odyssey, there's "thestandard" instead of "the standard". A minor thing, but distracting when a reader has to look a 2nd time to make sure they're reading what was meant.

Hello - Joseph was one of the earlier incarnations of Jesias/Jesus/Sananda. Blessings

I appreciate your physical lead by example without mention...yeah nowadays guys can have some muscle with a brain too!!! I enjoy the history you are teaching and how you break it down! I have a son about your age, we will need strong leaders to emerge to preserve our existing.

I have learned more about the Odyssey and its literature intricacies than I ever did in high school. I am not sure that this is a proof of Greeks writing the story of Joseph thru Moses. The two could follow the same Hero's Journey just because that is what people respond to and the form keeps getting used over and over. I mean if you uphold Jung's ideas of archetypes being an underlying part of our collective psyches then it is not a wonder that the two stories mirror each other.

Why do you think Argos was placed in the Odyssey? Are pets often used in stories around this time frame?

I love how nerdy you get and you get into the Weeds on this and pretty much everything you are always doing that. This is great! No I I just want to mention this because I don't know it just seems like it's unsaid. So I think that because we see the Bible as from God that if we prove that there's influence from the cultures that contextualize the Hebrews or the Jews or the judeans or the Israelites then we basically proved that it's not from God. I am Jewish and I was raised reform Jewish. I lived in Israel for two and a half years I did some archeology but I studied Anthropologie so that's my background really. Now as a Jewish kid we did talk about you know Egypt and Babylon and the Canaanites but we never really talked about how the influenced each other as people. Occasionally some things would come up like you know Hammurabi's laws influencing the Hebrews or that the Jewish calendar is Babylonian but it wasn't until I went to Israel that things became more obvious like our burial practices are very Canaanite. Also the Passover seder is a symposium style dinner which is Greek. If you start talking about the languages you know the Semitic language like Greek was influenced by Pheonician. Another thing is you know I went to Petra in Jordan and you see the negative how they etched in stone burial Chambers and they mimic the Greek architectural style. It's just obvious at a certain point thatveryone was borrowing from each other and he rew people definitely were no exception. I guess if you choose to go to a more modern Church you will see that they will use more modern music but these types of inclusions and popular cultural innovations are used to help encourage greater connection to the message. Also these stories in the Bible took 500 years to be put down in writing and then compiled into the Torah. The Haggadah and the Torah were an oral tradition 1st and then written down. They used memory devices and methods to remember and transmit these stories through time and space from generation to generation. The Jewish understanding as far as I know of how long it took for the oral tradition to become a written tradition was 500 years from the Egyptian exile to the Babylonian exile. This is very important! This basically means that we have Leviticus and Deuteronomy which were the and those were probably the first books in the Torah. This didn't become a scroll until after the Babylonian exile. what is important to know is that what I'm telling you is also a myth that Jewish people tell each other about that history of oral tradition and then written tradition. I just want you to know that I think you're doing a great job I just wanted to give you that kind of tidbit to chew on it's really not a criticism it's an inside I think hopefully it's accurate and helpful.

Yes, the Joseph story, as we know it today, dates to between 600s and 400s BCE. Odyssey, in turn, dates back to 700s BCE, so it is older by between one to three centuries. Better too! But is too much made of both stories' play of the recognition element? Odysseus returns 20 years after leaving Penelope. It's a long time! Add abundant facial hair turning white, wrinkles, bad teeth, and general emaciation caused by numerous hardships and aging, and you can easily understand why Penelope might not have recognized Odysseus right away, or perhaps she didn't want to seeing as her once handsome and youthful husband no longer looked as she had remembered him. The same goes for Joseph-changed looks, different circumstances. Back then people had no photographs or even just portraits to remind them of their lost ones looks. These two stories may be quite independent and merely relating to a common human condition. They unfold very differently too. There's a bloodbath in the Odyssey, and a happy family reunion in the Joseph story. Another difference is that whereas Odysseus is a cunning, highly skilled, and greatly experienced warrior, Joseph is a puny teenager when his story begins, and he grows to become this most vile of all creatures, a government bureaucrat. The real question in the Joseph story that puzzles me is his familiarity with the Egyptian language. How close were Hebrew and Egyptian back in 1570 BCE? How easy it would have been for Hebrew speaking Joseph to communicate with Potiphar, Zulaykha, later with the Pharaoh (which one was it?), Potipherah, and his daughter?

Minor point but camels were not domesticated until about 935 BC.

What percentage of an historical event's dramatic recountings must become corrupted in order for new generations to toss the whole thing out as myth or lies? And do the new generations wonder off into the sunset for better or worse because of it. Or will they simply write new chapters in the Book of Life allowing future generations to resolve their own great cognitive dissonance by whatever method gets them through the conflict?

Look into Chuck missler its an integrated message

Okay, I'm only bringing this up because I have ADHD and I got distracted by this so much I couldn't stop thinking about it. I don't want this to come off as a criticism or nitpicking or judgie but it's something that I can't get off my mind and it has to do with your pronunciation of words. I am curious why you can't say the long "ā" vowel sound, as in: - tail/tale or - allow Where does that come from? Is it a physical issue with your mouth or a cultural one, like a facet of a US dialect I haven't noticed before. Like people from the northeast who avoid the "t" sound in boTTle or ManhaTTan. I'm not criticizing the way that you speak. I am just curious where this comes from. I love your work thank you for what you do.

The Egyptians of Joseph's time were not peach but black and brown. So how could he blend and be irreconcilable among the Egyptians if he was peach in colour? So the biblical Israelites were also black and brown, isn't it?

Joseph was a real person there is a statue in Egypt northern part of Egypt in tomb, a Canaanite, with a cloak of many colors that is empty, which fits the biblical narrative

Very good research and intriguing ty but remember that the word of god is the baseline for all research because it infallible and my belief to be only accepted or rejected ty for your podcast

What? There nothing written in the scriptures that makes anyone question Joseph’s sexuality. He married an Egyptian woman and rejected the woman married to the Pharoah. Not much is written about Joseph for his story to be misconstrued. He was the 11th son out of the twelve, he was Jacob’s favorite and firstborn from the woman he loved, and the first Israelite to be called by God. His brothers hated him and left him in a pit with the hope he gets killed, but he was found by the Ishmaelites, sold to another tribe, then sold to Egypt. What was the purpose to bring him to Egypt? To eventually bring the entire family to Egypt to fulfill the prophecy God gave to Abraham that his seed will be in a land unfamiliar to them and be in bondage for four hundred years until the iniquities of the Amorites in Canaan was fulfilled. Joseph is known as one of the twelve tribes. Both his sons were blessed by his father so when it was time to divide the land of Canaan, now Israel, it was a part was also given to both sons, not Levi. Genesis 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. How did God judge Egypt? When Moses was called to deliver the Israelites out from Egypt and God’s power was shown against the nation. Then Moses was led to the wilderness with the children of Israel, but because he turned from his faith, he could not go to the promise land and was buried with his sister and brother Aaron in the wilderness, then Joshua was called by God to lead the Israelites out from the wilderness to the land inherited to them that was promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You can read about Joshua called by God in the Book of Deuteronomy. Then read about him leading the Israelites into the land of Canaan. I don’t know about that Odyssey crap this guy is talking about. It comes from Mythology stories. It’s called a myth because it’s a story that was once believed true.

Look how similar movies are to each other and to past stories. I am sure my biography would match millions of other biographies throughout history. That doesnt make it a lie or a fake. It just is.

Another ancient story. One thing for sure prayer did nothing even back then

MAGI...(AND..JUDGES.)..STRATES

44:30 Cultimate? Was that a Telemachian slip?

Hey you should definitely do a video with Paul Anthony Wallace. I think the two you would make an incredible video going back and forth discussing Bibles true meaning and where it comes from the greater Cannon before was dissected and made to use control by the Catholic Church. Why did everybody bring up the fact. When they were going to translate it into English it was like the ultimate sin and you could be hung and disembowel because of doing it. Exact reason why it was just control of the people in the way for the Romans do not have to spend so much money on an army because they had control of the people on every country and get use his military to enforce their the king to do their bidding

I suppose most of the issue is the whole "infallible" of these books. Why wouldn't a people change their stories, with the changing times?

What are you reading from, here?

Nothing in Old Testament outdated Homer’s Oddesey. I mean, the oldest Biblical manuscripts are written in Greek language. (Septuagint)

My middle name is also Joseph. Cool beans man.

There's really a difference between someone whose passion is to seek the truth and someone who just makes contents for views. Careful people.

So was joseph a canonite? 🕊🕊🕊

Tight ah

I never thought that Gus Portokalos from my big fat greek wedding would be right. Everyone gets everything from the greeks. they all want to be greek.

Vegeta, what does the scouter say about his verbage level?

That was my Mother Gilgamesh rejected hahahahaha

who tf is "Agnamemnon"?

ALL..TRICKERY

Its all Greek

Derrick has his Euro blinders on and stops trading these stories at the artificial East / West divide.

IS...RA..EL

Are the stories copied from previous myths is the main question. A point here, a point there, may be enough to the sarcastic, but I think the inspiration to convey the evils and nobilities the exist in all people, thus will pass to generation, and interacting cultures. I wish we'd all admit man created God and his stories and be done with it.

I just watched a long video about Nazi Germany, and it reminds me of the Bible should it be acted out in real life - the tactics used to facilitate genocide of Jews, disabled persons, homosexuals, etc. (Joshua against the Canaanites, etc) The idealizion of motherhood for women (fill the earth and multiply) The attempts in creating a "pure and superior race" (all lineages being traced in the Bible and God's desire for racial purity commanding his people to not mate with outsiders) Book burning ceremonies (forbidden knowledge as laid out in Genesis) And many many more parallels, possibly 1:1 or close to. Seems to me that the Bible's true history and use is in Nazi Germany. It looks to me like a tool created by and for the benefit of the Nazis. When I see the copy and paste connections on a nearly 1 to 1 basis, I get very concerned for the near and far future of our country and ultimately humanity. A strong country cannot be taken by force without first creating chaos within it's own people. And considering the overwhelming amount of religious people in my home I can't help but be convinced that the Bible is simply a contingency for the Nazis and it's partners, and the war was never over. It simply moved it's lines.

Were SOME biblical characters based on real people? Yes. Is any of the magic stuff true? No

I feel like none of you actually read these stories

NORSE AND CELTIC..THE SAME

Joseph's own brothers couldnt tell him apart from a room full of Biblical day Hamite black Egyptians. To them Jospeh was just another Egyptian. Noah's son Ham was the father of the African nations. Ham's son Mizraim founded Egypt. Mizraim's brothers were Cush and other African nation fathers. So....yall really need to quit pretending Ashkenazi were the Biblical day Israelites. Absolutely nothing about them fits physical or prophetic descriptions given for Israel in the Bible

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I'm afraid of what is happening is biblical

Ezekiel 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Ezekiel 18:24 certainly does serve as a reminder to believers that are born again to take heed that no man deceive us as commanded in Matthew 24:4. Especially when in regards that man could be the kind of man that God speaks of in Ezekiel 18:24 as someone who turns away from his righteousness and committing iniquity.

I called Joseph the Rainbow kid😂 who founded the lgbtq 🎉😂🌈🔥

I mean honestly when u read the pagan traditions it sounds no where near the stories in the Bible yes there’s some similarities but the overrall story are quite opposite idk why people follow this when they can actually read all the stories and clearly see how the Bible stories are literally different 😂

Broach....bro-ch.

Áre you sure, you want to COMPARE myths, with scripture….?🕊

Wouldn't you agree, that most of these paintings seem to be from Sodoma. Where the dragqueens have forgot to shave. 😃👍

With all respect but you are now into a one-way explanation. If one biblical tradition or story fits into non -Biblical myth, that does not mean that also is the case in every story. One always has to look for what reason the story one faces has been written. To put it on this story of Joseph it has no mythical contents what so ever. The story of Joseph has an other function in Judaism. As Biblical scholar I really do disagree with this approach in regard to the Joseph narrative.

lol Derek, i thought u were buddies with a Rabbi. Ephraim is pronounced EH-FRY-EM or EHF-RY-EEM :)

It Has Nothing To Do With Joseph's Story Whatsoever !! Second, The Homer's Story in Reality They Were Pellasgian Fighting With Each Others Tribes Like Illirians Today Albaninas!! THese two Stories Have Nothing Similar Unless It Makes Some Piece Of Mind For YOURSELF Than NE LL1

I've always suspected that the stories of the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament were just that: stories -- not histories. The fictional character of their content is only too obvious -- in light of the parallels and similarities to myths and legends elsewhere. Sadly enough, the same could be said of the New Testament as well ...