Gospel (144 page)

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My publishers thought that readers might care to review some of the more unusual information in the book, so I have provided an index of the purely factual matters herein. Disciples can be found by their names; only the true facts concerning Matthias are below, not the gospel that I've made up. Look under “Epistles” for any letters, “Gospels” for any gospels. Except for a few, all the saints are under “Saints.” Emperors and empresses are under “Emperors (Byzantine)” or “Caesars.”

Abargus the Toparch

A
CTS

Acts of Andrew

Acts of Andrew and Matthias

Acts of the Apostles

Matthias's election

Acts of Pilate

Acts of Thomas

Apostolic Church Order

Aelred

Agathon, quoted

Agrippa Castor

Alexander Jannaeus

persecution of Pharisees

Aliturius (Nero favorite)

All Souls College (Oxford Univ.)

Night of the Mallard

Ambrose

The Amidah

Ammianus Marcellinus, quoted

Ananus, the High Priest

The
Andreas

Angels

Angel of Darkness

Gabriel

Ethiopian anatomy

Michael in Monte Sant'Angelo

Michael in Ethiopia

Schamchasu

Samangeloph

Sansenoi

Senoi

Anti-Logoites

Antiochus IV

Antipopes,
see
Popes

Apocalypse of Thomas

Apollonius

Aquinas

Armenian Church

Arrumi, Jalaalu ad-Dinu, quoted

Arrupe (Jesuit Father General)

Artemision, the

Astrology

ibn-Ataah, Wasil

Attis (Cult of)

castration

Easter derived from

Virgin Birth

Augustine

The Avenging of the Savior

Avvakum

The
Bacchae

Bakker, Tammy Faye, quoted

Ballinspittal

Bartholomew the Disciple

is Nathanael in
John

flayed skin in Oxford

al-Basri, Hasan

Bede

quoted

Bellow, Saul, quoted

Blood libel

“Bloody Mary,”

Booze,
see
Liquors

the Borgias

Breton priests

Burchard, John

Cardinal Newman

C
AESARS

Antoninus Pius

Augustus

Caligula (Gaius)

Claudius

Constantine,
see
Emperors

Domitian

Elagabalus

Hadrian

Julius

Nero

(Empress) Poppaea

Tiberius

Titus

Trajan

Vespasian

Carmelite nuns

Castiglione, Baldesar, quoted

Castration cults

inspired by
Matthew

Justin Martyr

Origen

Celsus the Epicurean

Cestus Gallus, Roman Governor

Chariot (of Ezekiel)

Charlemagne

Charles V

Charles VI

Child of Prague

Christmas

pagan origin

Circumcision

female

operation to reverse

Clement of Alexandria

quoted Matthias

Clement of Rome

Columbus, Christopher

Communion,
see
Eucharist

Copeland, Kenneth

Coptic Church

tale of St. Bishoi

Cowper, quoted

Crassus of the First Triumvirate

Cross,
see also
Crucifixion

holy birds alighting upon

invention of the True Cross

Mohammed's distaste for

Sacred Tree

Via Dolorosa, Inc.

Crouch, Jan and Paul

Crucifixion

as sham

Jesus substituted for

Crusades

Prester John

Curses, Holy

Cush,
see
Meroe

Cybele (Cult of)

Dante, quoted

Dareus (Caligula favorite)

Dead Sea Scrolls

Demons,
see
Jinns

Diodorus Siculus

Dionysius the Bishop

Disciples,
see also
individual names listed

Dominicans

Druids

converted by Patrick

the giant Finn MacCool

Druse, the

Earth Mother

Easter

pagan origin

Eastern Orthodox Church

discussion of

Russia and

Russians on Mount Athos

schism with West

Ebionite Church,
see also
Nazirene Movement

circumcision and

ceremonies of

dislike of Paul

Eco, Umberto, quoted

Egyptian Orthodox Church,
see
Coptic Church

Elimelech of Lizhensk, Rabbi tale of

E
MPERORS
, Byzantine

Constantine

conflated sun-god with Jesus

Empress Helena

Julian the Apostate

Justinian

(Sultan) Murat

Empress Mara

Empress Theodora

E
MPERORS
, Roman,
see
Caesars

The End Times

according to fundamentalist Christians

according to St. Columkille

according to St. Malachy

according to monks on Mount

Athos

according to Nostradamus

according to the Lubavitchers

Messiah's return

the Rapture

Epaphroditus

Epiphanus

E
PISTLES

Epistles to the Corinthians

doctored by Church

discussion of “delivered up,”

the False Prophecy

hair obsession

Epistle to the Ephesians

Epistle to the Hebrews

Epistles of John

Epistle of Jude

Epistles of Peter

Epistle of Pilate to Tiberius

Epistles to the Philippians

Epistle to Polycarp

Epistle to the Romans

circumcision

discussion of “delivered up,”

Epistles to the Colossians

Epistles to the Thessalonians

the False Prophecy

Epistles to Timothy

not written by Paul

Ethiopian Church

bird reverence

exorcism rituals

Prester John

Eucharist

as inauthentic

“Do this in remembrance of me,”

as prefigured in
Genesis

as Persian

Euripides

Eusebius, Church Historian

Excommunication varieties of

The Exeter Book

False Messiahs

Apollonius

Haile Selassie

Shabbatai Zevi

Simon the Magus

Falwell, Jerry, quoted

Ferdinand of Spain

The
filioque
controversy

Franciscans,
see
Friars Minor

Friars Minor

Basilica of San Francesco

St. Clare

Santa Maria degli Angeli

tacky churches in Israel

ibn-Gabirol, Solomon

Gamaliel II

Genies,
see
Jinns

Gematriot

the Holy Name of God

Golems

G
OSPELS

Dialogue of the Savior

Gospel of Barnabas

Gospel of Bartholomew

Gospel (Protoevangelium) of James

Gospel of John

and Docetism

inclusion in the canon

John himself in

logos
borrowed from Philo

oldest fragment of

Pontius Pilate in

Thomas in

Infancy Gospel (of James)

Gospel of Luke

Gospel of Mark

interpolated Resurrection

secret, second version

Gospel of Mary Magdalene

Gospel of Matthew

and castration cults

Gospel of Matthias

Gospel of Philip

Gospel of “Q”

Gospel of Thomas

Greek Orthodox Church,
see
Eastern Orthodox Church

al-Hakim, Caliph (founder of Druses)

smasher of Holy Sepulcher

Hasidim, the

Hazlitt, William

quoted

Heaney, Seamus, quoted

Hegisippus

Queen Helen Monobazus

Helen, the Whore

Henry VIII

Heraclitus, quoted

H
ERESIES AND
H
ERETICS

Heresies, Christian,
see also
Castration Cults, Simon the Magus

the Antinomeans

the Basilidians

the Carpocratians

the Celepheans

the Cerinthians

the Contrarians (Lapsarians, Cainites)

the Helvidians

the Homoeans

the Homoiousians

the Homoousians

Menander

the Mormons

Nestorian Church

the Ophists (snake handlers)

Saturninus

Valentinus

the Paternians

Heresies, Jewish

Cult of Zevi

curse of Christian heretics

Heresies, Moslem

the Druse

Herod Antipas

Herod the Great

Herodotus

Hippolytus

Holy Name of God

in Kaballah

in Ethiopian rituals

Holy Sepulcher

destroyed by al-Hakim

feuds within

Mary Magdalene's role at

Holy Spirit

as female

origins in the Greco-Jewish
Sophia

Holy Staircase from Pilate's House

Homer, quoted

Homosexuality in Early Church

John and Jesus

Hyrcanus, John

Ignatius

Ignatius Loyola

Ikons

the
Acheiropoeton
of Scala Sancta

miraculous

Incorruption,
see
Saints, incorrupt

Indulgences

Irenaeus

quoted

supported
Gospel of John

Isabella of Spain

Islam

as initially liberating for women

burying female children

children of the Book

Druse heresy

Edict of Expulsion from Spain

genies,
see also
Jinns

Kalimah

Mekkah

miracle of Jesus and the clay birds

muezzin's call

on insane people

on Jesus,
Isa Mesih

on Jesus's birth

sharia
rule in Sudan

whirling dervishes

James bar-Alphaeus

James bar-Zebedee

James the Brother

as Nazirene

death according to Josephus

martyrdom

Jerome

Jerusalem

Holy Sepulcher of

intertwined with Greek culture

Jewish Quarter

Tacitus on

Siege of

Western Wall

Jesuits,
see
Society of Jesus, Ignatius Loyola

J
ESUS

Jesus, life of

against religious hypocrisy

and Mary Magdalene

as anti-ascetic

as Essene

as Jewish Reformer

as Nazirene

as prophet

brothers of

flight into Egypt reconsidered

Moslem teaching concerning

not from Nazareth

Resurrection analyzed

words interpolated

Zechariah paradox

Jesus, legend of

birthday that of Mithra's

childhood in
Infancy Gospel

Holy Diaper

Holy Handkerchief

Holy Umbilical Cord

interpolations in Josephus

numbers of wounds

redeems Adam for his Fall

Sacred Letter of

Sacred Shoulder Wound

son of prostitute libel

Jesus, miracles of

St. Bishoi and Jesus' feet

Holy Face imprintings

making clay birds

cures impotence

raising of Lazarus reconsidered

turning of mule into man

water-into-wine reconsidered

Jerome

Jewish Rulers,
see
Alexander

Jannaeus, Antiochus IV,

Herod Antipas, Herod the

Great, John Hyrcanus, the

Maccabees, Solomon

Jewish War

anti-Greek sentiment

the Sicarii

Jinns

al-A'war

Dahsim

Ethiopian
ganén

Ghadar jinn

Iblis

Nasnaas

Shiqq

shooting stars

Tir

Zalambuur

Zauba'ah

Book of Job

John the Baptist

as Nazirene

mentioned in Josephus

Zechariah paradox

John of Climax

John Damascene

on extracting fluids from incorrupt corpses

John the Elder

John the Evangelist,
see also Gospel of John

finds Mount Athos

“whom Jesus loved,”

Josephus, Flavius

Antiquities of the Jews

Christian bogus interpolations in

dates

Essene martyrologies

Fall of Jerusalem

The Jewish War

Life of

Pontius Pilate in

possible conversion

return to Judaism

role as Roman general