Christmas Who’s Who: Jesus was Jewish, Was Muhammad a Christian or a Jew?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, December 25, 2014
Theme: Culture, Society & History, Politics and Religion
Jesus was Jewish
He was born in Bethlehem, a Palestinian city which is now in the West Bank under Israeli military occupation.
Jesus is a Palestinian from Galilee. Jesus was considered as
a Jewish rabbi (teacher). He also preached his oral message
in synagogues in Galilee.
Jesus was referred to as “Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth”.
Both Joseph and Mary were Jews.
Jesus was Aramaic speaking.
Aramaic was a Semitic language of communication and trade in the
Levant. Aramaic is still spoken in certain parts of Syria. Arabic and
Hebrew are related to Aramaic.
Jesus was a Jew, so that the first attempts to understand
his message took place within the context of Judaism. The New Testament
was written in Greek, but the language Jesus and his disciples usually
spoke seems to have been Aramaic, a Semitic tongue related to Hebrew but
not identical with it. Aramaic words and phrases are scattered
throughout the Gospels and other early Christian books, reflecting the
language in which various sayings and liturgical formulas had been
repeated before the transition to Greek became complete (Jesus Many Face, PBS)
Jesus was not born on Christmas Day
There is no evidence that Jesus was born on December 25th.
Historians confirm that Christmas was borrowed from pagan celebrations.
The Romans had their mid-winter Saturnalia festival in
late December; barbarian peoples of northern and western Europe kept
holidays at similar times. To top it off, in 274 C.E., the Roman emperor Aurelian established a feast of the birth of Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun), on December 25. Christmas, …
According to this theory, early Christians deliberately chose
these dates to encourage the spread of Christmas and Christianity
throughout the Roman world: If Christmas looked like a pagan
holiday, more pagans would be open to both the holiday and the God whose
birth it celebrated. (Biblical History Archive)
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
(Mohamed) Muḥammad, born 570 AD: Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim.
Muhammad viewed Christians and Jews, as “People of the Book” referring to the Old Testament.
Muslims consider that Jesus was a prophet and a Messiah. So were Abraham and Moses.
Muhammad was influenced by Nestorian Christians in Arabia and the Levant (al Sham):
The Nestorians … established schools in many towns. In
their monasteries monks could be heard chanting their offices, so that
the Arabs became accustomed to seeing the monks at pray day and night, …
The monastery at Hira was established by the Nestorians in the fifth
century, and from thence Christianity was carried to Bahrayn. While
Muhammad was a young man, King Nu’man of Hira was converted to
Christianity. The church in the east was predominately Nestorian, though
a fair number of Monophysites were to be found there. (Guillaume,
“Islam”, p. 15)
Bahira, a Nestorian Christian monk who lived in Al Sham (Syria) is
considered to have influenced Muhammad in the writing of the Quran.
Muhammed sought to unify the Pagan, Jewish and Christian tribes of Arabia.
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