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"We Jews and Church Leaders have known
since the beginning of Christianity that it was synthesized by the Roman Piso family for the purpose of maintaining control over the masses and to placate slaves. And, this is why we Jews are the Chosen People and why we have endured so much for so many years; we are witnesses to the lie. Our ancestors wrote what they could about this in our texts. WHO WROTE THE NEW
TESTAMENT? from RomanPisoHomepageBookshelf Website The authorship of the New Testament books have been discovered. For years, the book The True Authorship of the New Testament has been out and many persons have
been discovering this as well. Now, we feel that it is time to put this
information out on the Net. There has
been a few WebPages on the Net telling
about how and why the Roman Piso family authored the New Testament. But there had yet to be the information on
who wrote each of the New Testament
books. So, here you will find out who wrote what. There is enough information here so that persons can
grasp the fact that this is real and that
they can research it further as well as
find books that will help to explain this in
more detail. Soon, there will be new books out that
will enable even the person to do their
own research on this and to verify it. Our
goal in all of this is to get this out to as
many persons as possible and to see
more and more persons writing on this subject. Look for books on the subject of:
The Piso Theory, and of The New Classical Scholarship. We have determined that the book of Mark was the first of the Gospels to have been written and so we will always list
Mark before Matthew. THE NT BOOKS: MARK: The gospel of Mark was written in a
prototype form before it was later crafted
into the form that we are familiar with.
The earlier version was called Ur Marcus and is also known/called Q (for Quelle, which is German for the source). Our latest findings regarding the early version of Mark show that this was written at about the time of Claudius Caesar, by the grandfather of Arrius Piso. That version was apparently only a bare sketch and most likely did not give a
name to the messiah. That appears to have been done later by the person who
actually played Jesus in the Gospels - Arrius Piso The version that we are familiar with was
written about the year 73 CE by Arrius Calpurnius Piso. Arrius Piso was a Roman on his fathers side, but a
descendant of King Herod on his mothers side and therefore he knew well
about the Jewish religion. He was also a
close relative to the Flavians and even though secretly he could inherit and use
the Flavian name by his mothers descent
from them, he gave a story about
receiving it from the emperor Vespasian
(in his other identity as Flavius Josephus). MATTHEW: Matthew too, was authored by Arrius Calpurnius Piso. This was written about the year 75 CE. LUKE: Was written 85-90 CE by Arrius C. Piso and Pliny the Younger. JOHN: The 4th Gospel, or the Gospel of John was written by Justus Calpurnius Piso, a son of Arrius C. Piso. This son was very
much like this father in his hatred
towards humanity. This Gospel was
written circa 105 CE. ACTS: The Acts of the Apostles was written by Arrius Piso and his son Justus, with some help from Pliny the Younger 96-100 CE. By the way, there is a portion
of Acts that is missing from most English
translations/interpretations. That is the 29th Chapter, which has 10 verses. ROMANS: The epistle to the Romans was written by
another son of Arrius Piso (Proculus Piso) and Claudia Phoebe about the year 100. Claudia Phoebe is known in
history as the wife of the emperor Trajan (as Pompeia Plotina). She wrote the last few verses of this epistle, which
many copies of the NT in English leave
out because that portion was written by a
woman. This is obvious, and she even
gives her name as Phoebe. You can tell
where the previous male author leaves off and the female author begins
because the male author signs off with
Amen. She wrote the last verses (25-27)
of Romans, Chapter 16. 1st CORINTHIANS, GALATIONS, and EPHESIANS: were all written between 100-103 CE by Pliny the Younger. 2nd CORINTHIANS and PHILIPPIANS: were written by Justus C. Piso between 103-105 CE. COLOSSIANS: was written by Justus C. Piso and his son Julianus (Julianus was the father of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, but this is seen in history only by his use of another
name Verus). 1st TIMOTHY: was written by Pliny the Younger circa 105 CE. 2nd TIMOTHY: was written by Justus C. Piso (also known in history by other names), c. 107
CE. 1st and 2nd THESSALONIANS: were written by Justus C. Piso and his son Julianus with some help from his nephew Silanus between the years 105-110 CE. TITUS: was written by Pliny the Younger circa 103-105 CE. PHILEMON: was written by Justus C. Piso and his son Julianus. JAMES: was written by Justus C. Piso around 110 CE. 1st and 2nd PETER: were written by Proculus Piso between 110-115 CE. 1st, 2nd and 3rd JOHN: were written by Julius Calpurnius Piso (who was still another son of Arrius
Calpurnius Piso), between 110-115 CE. JUDE: was written by Julius C. Piso also, between the years 110-115 CE. THE REVELATION OF JOHN THE
DIVINE: was written by Julius Calpurnius Piso, who may have been the son of the other
Julius Calpurnius Piso (who had the
same name), and this was written in or
about the year 137 CE. It was not the
book of the NT, just written as the end of
the story. HEBREWS: This was written by a grandson of Arrius
Piso named Flavius Arrianus circa 140 CE. Flavius Arrianus was the real name
of the historian who wrote as Appian. This person was the half-brother of the
emperor Antoninus Pius. Antoninus Pius, by the way, also wrote history under the
name of Suetonius. Flavius Arrianus also wrote other works, most notably, he
wrote under the name of Ptolemy. FROM CHAPTER 1 of The True Authorship of the New Testament by Abelard Reuchlin from TheRomanPisoForum Website The New Testament, the Church, and Christianity, were all the creation of the Calpurnius Piso (pronounced Peso w/ long E) family (a), who were Roman aristocrats. The New
Testament and
all the characters in itJesus, all the
Josephs, all the Marys, all the disciples,
apostles, Paul, and
John the Baptistare all fictional. The Pisos created the story and the characters; they tied the story into a
specific time and place in
history; and they connected it with some
peripheral actual people, such as the
Herods, Gamaliel, the
Roman procurators, etc. But Jesus and everyone involved with him were created
(that is, fictional!)
characters. In the middle of the first century of our
present era, Romes aristocracy felt itself
confronted with a
growing problem. The Jewish religion
was continuing to grow in numbers,
adding ever more proselytes. Jews numbered more than
8,000,000, and were 10% of the
population of the empire
and 20% of that portion living east of Rome. (b) Approximately half or more of the Jews lived
outside Palestine, of which many were
descended from proselytes, male and female. (c) However, Judaisms ethics and morality
were incompatible with the hallowed
Roman institution of
slavery on which the aristocracy fed, lived
and ruled. They feared that Judaism
would become the chief religion of the empire. The Roman
author, Annaeus Seneca, tutor and confidant of Emperor Nero, suggested in a letter to his friend Lucilius (a pseudonym of Lucius Piso) that lighting candles on Sabbaths be prohibited. (d) Seneca is later quoted by St. Augustine in his City of God (e) (although the quotation does not exist in
Senecas extant writings) as charging
that: the (Sabbath) customs of that most
accursed nation have gained such
strength that they have been now
received in all lands, the conquered have
given laws to the conqueror. The family headed by Senecas friend, Lucius Piso, was confronted with an allied problem more
personal to it. They were the Calpurnius Pisos, who were descended from statesmen and consuls,
and from great poets and historians as
well. Gaius and Lucius Calpurnius Piso,
leaders of the family,
had both married Arria the Younger (from her grandfathers name,
Aristobulus). This made Gaius
and Lucius Pisos wife the great-
granddaughter of Herod the Great. Repeatedly, religious-minded Judaean
zealots were staging insurrections
against the Herodian rulers of Judaea who were Pisos wifes relations. Piso wished to strengthen his wifes familys control of
the Judaeans. The Pisos searched for a
solution to the two problems. They found
it in the Jewish
holy books, which were the foundation
both for the rapid spread of the religion and for the zealots
refusal to be governed by Romes
puppets. The Pisos mocked, but marveled at, the Jewish belief in
their holy books. Therefore, they felt a new Jewish book would be the ideal method to pacify the
Judaeans and strengthen their in-laws
control of the country. About the year, 60 A.D. (C.E.), Lucius Calpurnius Piso composed Ur Marcus, the first version of the Gospel of Mark, which no longer exists. He was encouraged by his friend Seneca (f) and assisted by his wifes kinsman, young
Persius the Poet. Neros mistress (later
his wife) Poppea was
pro-Jewish, and Nero opposed the plan.
The result was the Pisonian conspiracy to
assassinate Nero, detailed in the historian Tacitus. But this attempt failed when he aborted
the plot. Instead,
Nero had Piso and Seneca and their
fellow conspirators executed by forcing
them to commit
suicide. He exiled Pisos young son Arrius (spelled Arius herein), who appears in Tacitus under several names, including Antonius Natalis. (g) Nero sent young Piso to Syria as
governor. That post also
gave him command of the legions
controlling Judaea. His own history
records his service in Judaea
in the year 65 under the name of Gessius Florus, and in 66 with the pseudonym
Cestius Gallus. This Arius Calpurnius Piso deliberately provoked the Jewish revolt in 66 so he
could destroy the Temple in Jerusalem (h)--for the Jews were unwilling to accept his fathers story
and thereby
become pacified by it as it was intended. However, his 12th legion was caught by the zealots in the
Pass of Beth Horon and almost lost.
Neros reaction was to exile him instead
to Pannonia, to
command a legion there; and to send
Licinius Mucianus to serve in Syria, and Vespasian to Judaea
to put down the Jewish revolt. Then in 68 Nero was assassinated by his own slave Epaphroditus (i) --who unknown to his master
was young Pisos lackey. Galba became emperor and named Pisos cousin, Licinianus Piso, (j) as his intended successor; but Galba in turn
was soon overthrown by Otho. Otho was then overthrown
by Vitellius, at which point Piso and his friends began to flock together against
the latter. The Pisos,
Mucianus, and Tiberius Alexander all
joined ranks behind Vespasian to seek to
overthrow Vitellius. (k) The were joined by Frontinus and Agricola. Arius Calpurnius Piso was still commanding the 7th legion in Pannonia (l) (Austria-Hungary), and Vespasian sent him (m) (now appearing in Tacitus with the name Marcus Antonius Primus (n)) south across the Alps to overthrow Vitellius.
Meanwhile, the main body of Vespasians
legions marched
overland under Mucianus from the east
towards Rome. Piso succeeded in defeating Vitellius army and secured Rome for Vespasian.(o) Mucianus arrived and promptly sent him
to Judaea to help
Titus at the siege of Jerusalem. He did
so, and in 70 they assaulted the city, then
the Temple, burned
it, slaughtered many thousands, sent thousands more to slavery and
gladiatorial combat and death. Then, Arius Calpurnius Piso wrote, in sequence, the following: Gospel of Matthew (70-75 C.E.) Present Gospel of Mark (75-80 C.E.) Gospel of Luke (85-90 C.E., with help of
Pliny the Younger) In the gospel story he inserted himself by playing the role of not only Jesus, but of all the
Josephs, as well. He particularly enjoyed assuming the identity of Joseph. Wishing
to create a
Jewish hero, a savior, in fictional form, he
(and his father before him), felt the
identity of a second
Joseph secretly, but very aptly, fit them. For their name Piso had the same four letters, rearranged,
as the four Hebrew letters (Yud Vov Samech Fey) which in that language spelled the name Joseph. Thus they saw themselves as the new Joseph. That is why so much of the story of Joseph in Egypt is
secretly redone and inserted into the
gospel story of Jesus. References (a) The vowels are pronounced as in veto and me so. (b) Klausner, Joseph, From Jesus to Paul, Macmillan Co., 1943, pp 33-34. (c) Baron, Salo, A Social and Religious History of the Jews, Columbia Univ.
Press, N.Y., and Jewish Publication
Society, Philidephia, 1952, vol. 1, pp
170-171. (d) Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol. III, Epistle XCV.47, pp
87-89. (e) St. Augustine, City of God, Modern Library, Random House, 1950, 6.11, p
202. (f) Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol. I, Epistle XLVI, pp 299-300. (g) Tacitus, Annals, XV.54,71. (h) Having destroyed the Temple, Piso could then have Jesus (whom he was
predating to 40 years before the
Temples destruction) prophecy the
destruction because of the Jews
rejection of him! (Mat. 23.37-38). (i) Roman historians (Suet. Nero 49, and Dio Cassius 63.29) explain merely that
Epaphroditus assisted the emperors
suicide. See also Tacitus, Annals XV.55,
footnote 2. (j) Tacitus, Histories I.14. (k) Tacitus, Histories II.74-81. (l) Tacitus, Histories III.2, footnote 1. (m) (Tacitus) Vespasian relied on Piso because he was grandson of his own
brotherVespasians brother, T. Flavius
Sabinus, had married Arria Sr., who was
Pisos maternal grandmother. Pisos
identity as thus also a Flavian is
decipherable from the appearance in the Flavian family line of L. Caesennius
Paetus (Townend, Gavin, Some Flavian
Connections, Journal of Roman Studies
LI.54,62, 1961). That was an alias (like
Thrasea Paetus) of Pisos father, L.
Calpurnius Piso. See page 20 supra, wherein Piso himself
also is mentioned as a Caesennius
Paetus. That is the true reason Piso used
the literary pseudonym of Flavius; it was
not because of his alleged-but untrue
and hardly necessary-adoption by Emperor Flavius Vespasian. He was in
fact a Flavian.
Piso humorously used the three basic
consonants of the Flavians Sabinus
name, SBN, in revised sequences for
some of his fictional literary identities: (1) BarNaBaS who appears in Acts 4.36 and there specifically stated as another
name of a Joseph (Josephus!) (2) BarNaBazoS in Antiq. XI.207, (3) BaNnoS in Vita 11, the mirror-image of John the Baptist. The same device of rearranging
consonants was used in recreating
Afranius Burrus, the friend of Seneca
(Tacitus, Annals XIII-XIV)-and therefore
of Lucius Piso. He was Neros Praetorian
Prefect, and then several years before Senecas death, was himself a victim of
the emperor. Burrus reappears as
BaRaBbaS, the fictional brigand in Mat.
27.16. (n) (Tacitus, Histories III.6). The realization that Marcus Antonius Primus
was a pseudonym of Arius Calpurnius
Piso is based on these factors: 1. The name in Plinys letters under which Piso is the latters wifes
grandfather is Arius Antoninus. 2. According to Suetonius (Lives of the Caesars, Book IV. XXV), Emperor Caius
Caligula appropriated Gaius Pisos wife
at Pisos marriage. That would have been
about the year 36--the year before Arius
birth. Caligula is known to have been a
descendant of Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius). Seemingly Suetonius was
teasing at the questioned paternity of
Pisos alter ego creation. 3. Tacitus caustic description of Marcus Antonius Primus remind one of Piso. 4. The idea to call Piso Antonius Primuswas his own. It was Piso himself
in his Jewish War IV.495 who first
detailed Antonius Primus campaign for
Vespasian against Vitellius. Also
Josephus inserts Antonius (himself!) as
a centurion who dies at the capture of Jotapata (Jewish War III.333). 5. Marcus Antonius Primus colleague in the campaign against Vitellius is named
Arrius Varus (Tacitus, Histories III.6).
This is yet another alter ego of Piso
himself. In the mid-50s (C.E.), while in
his late teens, young Piso was a prefect
of a cohort of legionnaires in the campaign against Vologeses, King of
Armeniaserving there (in Tacitus, Annals
XIII.9) under the name of Arrius Varus. 6. His exploits as General Marcus Antonius Primus account for his absence
from Judaea in the years 67-69, between
his defeat as Cestius Gallus and his
reappearing to assist Titus as the siege
of Jerusalem in 70. Rather than being
Vespasians prisoner in chains, he was his general, advancing on Rome in his
behalf. (o) Tacitus, Histories, III.82-86. Also the supreme authority was exercised by
Antonius Primus (Tacitus, Histories,
IV.2).
since the beginning of Christianity that it was synthesized by the Roman Piso family for the purpose of maintaining control over the masses and to placate slaves. And, this is why we Jews are the Chosen People and why we have endured so much for so many years; we are witnesses to the lie. Our ancestors wrote what they could about this in our texts. WHO WROTE THE NEW
TESTAMENT? from RomanPisoHomepageBookshelf Website The authorship of the New Testament books have been discovered. For years, the book The True Authorship of the New Testament has been out and many persons have
been discovering this as well. Now, we feel that it is time to put this
information out on the Net. There has
been a few WebPages on the Net telling
about how and why the Roman Piso family authored the New Testament. But there had yet to be the information on
who wrote each of the New Testament
books. So, here you will find out who wrote what. There is enough information here so that persons can
grasp the fact that this is real and that
they can research it further as well as
find books that will help to explain this in
more detail. Soon, there will be new books out that
will enable even the person to do their
own research on this and to verify it. Our
goal in all of this is to get this out to as
many persons as possible and to see
more and more persons writing on this subject. Look for books on the subject of:
The Piso Theory, and of The New Classical Scholarship. We have determined that the book of Mark was the first of the Gospels to have been written and so we will always list
Mark before Matthew. THE NT BOOKS: MARK: The gospel of Mark was written in a
prototype form before it was later crafted
into the form that we are familiar with.
The earlier version was called Ur Marcus and is also known/called Q (for Quelle, which is German for the source). Our latest findings regarding the early version of Mark show that this was written at about the time of Claudius Caesar, by the grandfather of Arrius Piso. That version was apparently only a bare sketch and most likely did not give a
name to the messiah. That appears to have been done later by the person who
actually played Jesus in the Gospels - Arrius Piso The version that we are familiar with was
written about the year 73 CE by Arrius Calpurnius Piso. Arrius Piso was a Roman on his fathers side, but a
descendant of King Herod on his mothers side and therefore he knew well
about the Jewish religion. He was also a
close relative to the Flavians and even though secretly he could inherit and use
the Flavian name by his mothers descent
from them, he gave a story about
receiving it from the emperor Vespasian
(in his other identity as Flavius Josephus). MATTHEW: Matthew too, was authored by Arrius Calpurnius Piso. This was written about the year 75 CE. LUKE: Was written 85-90 CE by Arrius C. Piso and Pliny the Younger. JOHN: The 4th Gospel, or the Gospel of John was written by Justus Calpurnius Piso, a son of Arrius C. Piso. This son was very
much like this father in his hatred
towards humanity. This Gospel was
written circa 105 CE. ACTS: The Acts of the Apostles was written by Arrius Piso and his son Justus, with some help from Pliny the Younger 96-100 CE. By the way, there is a portion
of Acts that is missing from most English
translations/interpretations. That is the 29th Chapter, which has 10 verses. ROMANS: The epistle to the Romans was written by
another son of Arrius Piso (Proculus Piso) and Claudia Phoebe about the year 100. Claudia Phoebe is known in
history as the wife of the emperor Trajan (as Pompeia Plotina). She wrote the last few verses of this epistle, which
many copies of the NT in English leave
out because that portion was written by a
woman. This is obvious, and she even
gives her name as Phoebe. You can tell
where the previous male author leaves off and the female author begins
because the male author signs off with
Amen. She wrote the last verses (25-27)
of Romans, Chapter 16. 1st CORINTHIANS, GALATIONS, and EPHESIANS: were all written between 100-103 CE by Pliny the Younger. 2nd CORINTHIANS and PHILIPPIANS: were written by Justus C. Piso between 103-105 CE. COLOSSIANS: was written by Justus C. Piso and his son Julianus (Julianus was the father of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, but this is seen in history only by his use of another
name Verus). 1st TIMOTHY: was written by Pliny the Younger circa 105 CE. 2nd TIMOTHY: was written by Justus C. Piso (also known in history by other names), c. 107
CE. 1st and 2nd THESSALONIANS: were written by Justus C. Piso and his son Julianus with some help from his nephew Silanus between the years 105-110 CE. TITUS: was written by Pliny the Younger circa 103-105 CE. PHILEMON: was written by Justus C. Piso and his son Julianus. JAMES: was written by Justus C. Piso around 110 CE. 1st and 2nd PETER: were written by Proculus Piso between 110-115 CE. 1st, 2nd and 3rd JOHN: were written by Julius Calpurnius Piso (who was still another son of Arrius
Calpurnius Piso), between 110-115 CE. JUDE: was written by Julius C. Piso also, between the years 110-115 CE. THE REVELATION OF JOHN THE
DIVINE: was written by Julius Calpurnius Piso, who may have been the son of the other
Julius Calpurnius Piso (who had the
same name), and this was written in or
about the year 137 CE. It was not the
book of the NT, just written as the end of
the story. HEBREWS: This was written by a grandson of Arrius
Piso named Flavius Arrianus circa 140 CE. Flavius Arrianus was the real name
of the historian who wrote as Appian. This person was the half-brother of the
emperor Antoninus Pius. Antoninus Pius, by the way, also wrote history under the
name of Suetonius. Flavius Arrianus also wrote other works, most notably, he
wrote under the name of Ptolemy. FROM CHAPTER 1 of The True Authorship of the New Testament by Abelard Reuchlin from TheRomanPisoForum Website The New Testament, the Church, and Christianity, were all the creation of the Calpurnius Piso (pronounced Peso w/ long E) family (a), who were Roman aristocrats. The New
Testament and
all the characters in itJesus, all the
Josephs, all the Marys, all the disciples,
apostles, Paul, and
John the Baptistare all fictional. The Pisos created the story and the characters; they tied the story into a
specific time and place in
history; and they connected it with some
peripheral actual people, such as the
Herods, Gamaliel, the
Roman procurators, etc. But Jesus and everyone involved with him were created
(that is, fictional!)
characters. In the middle of the first century of our
present era, Romes aristocracy felt itself
confronted with a
growing problem. The Jewish religion
was continuing to grow in numbers,
adding ever more proselytes. Jews numbered more than
8,000,000, and were 10% of the
population of the empire
and 20% of that portion living east of Rome. (b) Approximately half or more of the Jews lived
outside Palestine, of which many were
descended from proselytes, male and female. (c) However, Judaisms ethics and morality
were incompatible with the hallowed
Roman institution of
slavery on which the aristocracy fed, lived
and ruled. They feared that Judaism
would become the chief religion of the empire. The Roman
author, Annaeus Seneca, tutor and confidant of Emperor Nero, suggested in a letter to his friend Lucilius (a pseudonym of Lucius Piso) that lighting candles on Sabbaths be prohibited. (d) Seneca is later quoted by St. Augustine in his City of God (e) (although the quotation does not exist in
Senecas extant writings) as charging
that: the (Sabbath) customs of that most
accursed nation have gained such
strength that they have been now
received in all lands, the conquered have
given laws to the conqueror. The family headed by Senecas friend, Lucius Piso, was confronted with an allied problem more
personal to it. They were the Calpurnius Pisos, who were descended from statesmen and consuls,
and from great poets and historians as
well. Gaius and Lucius Calpurnius Piso,
leaders of the family,
had both married Arria the Younger (from her grandfathers name,
Aristobulus). This made Gaius
and Lucius Pisos wife the great-
granddaughter of Herod the Great. Repeatedly, religious-minded Judaean
zealots were staging insurrections
against the Herodian rulers of Judaea who were Pisos wifes relations. Piso wished to strengthen his wifes familys control of
the Judaeans. The Pisos searched for a
solution to the two problems. They found
it in the Jewish
holy books, which were the foundation
both for the rapid spread of the religion and for the zealots
refusal to be governed by Romes
puppets. The Pisos mocked, but marveled at, the Jewish belief in
their holy books. Therefore, they felt a new Jewish book would be the ideal method to pacify the
Judaeans and strengthen their in-laws
control of the country. About the year, 60 A.D. (C.E.), Lucius Calpurnius Piso composed Ur Marcus, the first version of the Gospel of Mark, which no longer exists. He was encouraged by his friend Seneca (f) and assisted by his wifes kinsman, young
Persius the Poet. Neros mistress (later
his wife) Poppea was
pro-Jewish, and Nero opposed the plan.
The result was the Pisonian conspiracy to
assassinate Nero, detailed in the historian Tacitus. But this attempt failed when he aborted
the plot. Instead,
Nero had Piso and Seneca and their
fellow conspirators executed by forcing
them to commit
suicide. He exiled Pisos young son Arrius (spelled Arius herein), who appears in Tacitus under several names, including Antonius Natalis. (g) Nero sent young Piso to Syria as
governor. That post also
gave him command of the legions
controlling Judaea. His own history
records his service in Judaea
in the year 65 under the name of Gessius Florus, and in 66 with the pseudonym
Cestius Gallus. This Arius Calpurnius Piso deliberately provoked the Jewish revolt in 66 so he
could destroy the Temple in Jerusalem (h)--for the Jews were unwilling to accept his fathers story
and thereby
become pacified by it as it was intended. However, his 12th legion was caught by the zealots in the
Pass of Beth Horon and almost lost.
Neros reaction was to exile him instead
to Pannonia, to
command a legion there; and to send
Licinius Mucianus to serve in Syria, and Vespasian to Judaea
to put down the Jewish revolt. Then in 68 Nero was assassinated by his own slave Epaphroditus (i) --who unknown to his master
was young Pisos lackey. Galba became emperor and named Pisos cousin, Licinianus Piso, (j) as his intended successor; but Galba in turn
was soon overthrown by Otho. Otho was then overthrown
by Vitellius, at which point Piso and his friends began to flock together against
the latter. The Pisos,
Mucianus, and Tiberius Alexander all
joined ranks behind Vespasian to seek to
overthrow Vitellius. (k) The were joined by Frontinus and Agricola. Arius Calpurnius Piso was still commanding the 7th legion in Pannonia (l) (Austria-Hungary), and Vespasian sent him (m) (now appearing in Tacitus with the name Marcus Antonius Primus (n)) south across the Alps to overthrow Vitellius.
Meanwhile, the main body of Vespasians
legions marched
overland under Mucianus from the east
towards Rome. Piso succeeded in defeating Vitellius army and secured Rome for Vespasian.(o) Mucianus arrived and promptly sent him
to Judaea to help
Titus at the siege of Jerusalem. He did
so, and in 70 they assaulted the city, then
the Temple, burned
it, slaughtered many thousands, sent thousands more to slavery and
gladiatorial combat and death. Then, Arius Calpurnius Piso wrote, in sequence, the following: Gospel of Matthew (70-75 C.E.) Present Gospel of Mark (75-80 C.E.) Gospel of Luke (85-90 C.E., with help of
Pliny the Younger) In the gospel story he inserted himself by playing the role of not only Jesus, but of all the
Josephs, as well. He particularly enjoyed assuming the identity of Joseph. Wishing
to create a
Jewish hero, a savior, in fictional form, he
(and his father before him), felt the
identity of a second
Joseph secretly, but very aptly, fit them. For their name Piso had the same four letters, rearranged,
as the four Hebrew letters (Yud Vov Samech Fey) which in that language spelled the name Joseph. Thus they saw themselves as the new Joseph. That is why so much of the story of Joseph in Egypt is
secretly redone and inserted into the
gospel story of Jesus. References (a) The vowels are pronounced as in veto and me so. (b) Klausner, Joseph, From Jesus to Paul, Macmillan Co., 1943, pp 33-34. (c) Baron, Salo, A Social and Religious History of the Jews, Columbia Univ.
Press, N.Y., and Jewish Publication
Society, Philidephia, 1952, vol. 1, pp
170-171. (d) Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol. III, Epistle XCV.47, pp
87-89. (e) St. Augustine, City of God, Modern Library, Random House, 1950, 6.11, p
202. (f) Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol. I, Epistle XLVI, pp 299-300. (g) Tacitus, Annals, XV.54,71. (h) Having destroyed the Temple, Piso could then have Jesus (whom he was
predating to 40 years before the
Temples destruction) prophecy the
destruction because of the Jews
rejection of him! (Mat. 23.37-38). (i) Roman historians (Suet. Nero 49, and Dio Cassius 63.29) explain merely that
Epaphroditus assisted the emperors
suicide. See also Tacitus, Annals XV.55,
footnote 2. (j) Tacitus, Histories I.14. (k) Tacitus, Histories II.74-81. (l) Tacitus, Histories III.2, footnote 1. (m) (Tacitus) Vespasian relied on Piso because he was grandson of his own
brotherVespasians brother, T. Flavius
Sabinus, had married Arria Sr., who was
Pisos maternal grandmother. Pisos
identity as thus also a Flavian is
decipherable from the appearance in the Flavian family line of L. Caesennius
Paetus (Townend, Gavin, Some Flavian
Connections, Journal of Roman Studies
LI.54,62, 1961). That was an alias (like
Thrasea Paetus) of Pisos father, L.
Calpurnius Piso. See page 20 supra, wherein Piso himself
also is mentioned as a Caesennius
Paetus. That is the true reason Piso used
the literary pseudonym of Flavius; it was
not because of his alleged-but untrue
and hardly necessary-adoption by Emperor Flavius Vespasian. He was in
fact a Flavian.
Piso humorously used the three basic
consonants of the Flavians Sabinus
name, SBN, in revised sequences for
some of his fictional literary identities: (1) BarNaBaS who appears in Acts 4.36 and there specifically stated as another
name of a Joseph (Josephus!) (2) BarNaBazoS in Antiq. XI.207, (3) BaNnoS in Vita 11, the mirror-image of John the Baptist. The same device of rearranging
consonants was used in recreating
Afranius Burrus, the friend of Seneca
(Tacitus, Annals XIII-XIV)-and therefore
of Lucius Piso. He was Neros Praetorian
Prefect, and then several years before Senecas death, was himself a victim of
the emperor. Burrus reappears as
BaRaBbaS, the fictional brigand in Mat.
27.16. (n) (Tacitus, Histories III.6). The realization that Marcus Antonius Primus
was a pseudonym of Arius Calpurnius
Piso is based on these factors: 1. The name in Plinys letters under which Piso is the latters wifes
grandfather is Arius Antoninus. 2. According to Suetonius (Lives of the Caesars, Book IV. XXV), Emperor Caius
Caligula appropriated Gaius Pisos wife
at Pisos marriage. That would have been
about the year 36--the year before Arius
birth. Caligula is known to have been a
descendant of Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius). Seemingly Suetonius was
teasing at the questioned paternity of
Pisos alter ego creation. 3. Tacitus caustic description of Marcus Antonius Primus remind one of Piso. 4. The idea to call Piso Antonius Primuswas his own. It was Piso himself
in his Jewish War IV.495 who first
detailed Antonius Primus campaign for
Vespasian against Vitellius. Also
Josephus inserts Antonius (himself!) as
a centurion who dies at the capture of Jotapata (Jewish War III.333). 5. Marcus Antonius Primus colleague in the campaign against Vitellius is named
Arrius Varus (Tacitus, Histories III.6).
This is yet another alter ego of Piso
himself. In the mid-50s (C.E.), while in
his late teens, young Piso was a prefect
of a cohort of legionnaires in the campaign against Vologeses, King of
Armeniaserving there (in Tacitus, Annals
XIII.9) under the name of Arrius Varus. 6. His exploits as General Marcus Antonius Primus account for his absence
from Judaea in the years 67-69, between
his defeat as Cestius Gallus and his
reappearing to assist Titus as the siege
of Jerusalem in 70. Rather than being
Vespasians prisoner in chains, he was his general, advancing on Rome in his
behalf. (o) Tacitus, Histories, III.82-86. Also the supreme authority was exercised by
Antonius Primus (Tacitus, Histories,
IV.2).