Christmas for Abraham's religions

The winter solstice (in the northern hemisphere) was in pagan times traditionally celebrating the coming of the light, but in Christianity the birth of Christ. According to an interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jesus was however born in March in the year 7 BCE, although September should have been the appropriate date for him as royal successor in the line of David in accordance with Essene rules. This actually created some concern about his right to succeed to the throne, which was however resolved by the Essenes and Jews in general and St Paul, and especially also by Jesus’ younger brother, James, who, having been born in the ‘correct’ month, had at some stage been seen as the ‘just’ successor. Jesus, an Essene, was (most likely) the crown prince to the Judaic royal house of David. The fact that the Old Testament prophesised a Messiah for one of the millennia after the Creation 4,000 years earlier, meant that Jesus arrived on the scene very close to the time for the fulfilment of that prophecy, which gave him considerable support among the Jewish people at a time of Roman oppression. The Essene lived by a very strict code of abstinence and religious protocol and his preachings fitted well with religious Jewish thinking in general. “As Heli was a ‘Jacob’, his son had the title of Jacob’s favourite son, Joseph. In 44 BC (as the concealed chronology shows), Jacob Heli had a son, Joseph. In March 7 BC, Joseph had a son, whose name and title was Jesus. Each of the three men, like their ancestors before them, bore the title ‘the Christ’, meaning that they were the heirs of David, the Anointed One.” While the priests and the ruling Herod were superior to him in position, Jesus was permitted to teach Gentiles and had a particular responsibility for them. His native language was Aramaic, a group of Semitic languages with a 3,000-year history. It has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship. It is the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the main language of the Talmud. While Jesus has been the originator of Christianity, he was also considered, by the Essene at least, the rightful successor to the throne of the house of David, and his birthday, whether March or the adopted winter solstice. should therefore deserve celebration in the world’s Jewish community. As for Christmas for Muslims, Jesus, Isa, was a prophet and mentioned 25 times more often in the Qur’an than Muhammad himself. He and his mother Mary, Miriam, are revered: “When the angels said: O Miriam, surely Allah gives you good news with a Word from Him (of one) whose name is the '. Messiah, Isa son of Miriam, worthy of regard in this world and the hereafter and of those who are made near (to Allah)”. Qur’an [3.45] Jesus is however not seen as a God, but as a prophet and apostle, and his god is the same god as Allah. Let all the religions derived from Abraham therefore respect if not even celebrate this adopted date of Jesus’ birth. REFERENCES Dr Barbara Thiering – Jesus of the Apocalypse – Doubleday 1995 Dr Barbara Thiering – Jesus the Man – Doubleday 1992 Dr Barbara Thiering – Jesus of the Apocalypse – page 8 – Doubleday 1995 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_language