The King Jesus Trilogy · Vol. 3 · 2012
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Which city, and which surviving portrait, would fix a first-century king who has been looked for in Galilee? Jesus, King of Edessa is the third and closing volume of the King Jesus Trilogy. It locates Jesus as a king of Edessa, modern Urfa, in northern Syria, and it points to a statue and a coin portrait, including the spiked radiate crown later read as a crown of thorns. That reading of the coin and the statue is Ellis’. It is not the usual account of Osroene. The book is the one to open when the question is the historical record of that king, after the genealogy of the first volume and the revolt of the second.
What you'll explore
- Jesus as a king of Edessa (Urfa)
- A first-century coin portrait and statue
- The ‘crown of thorns’ as a radiate royal crown
ISBN 9781905815661
In the journal
On Ancient Origins
- The Enigmatic H-Symbol Linking Gōbekli Tepe, The Priesthood And The Zodiac — 13 January 2022. Their page, not a chapter pasted here.
- Politics Behind The Jewish-Roman War: Vespasian Versus Izates Manu — 2 April 2021. Their page, not a chapter pasted here.
- The Royal Lineage Of Jesus, Descendant Of Cleopatra — 26 March 2021. Their page, not a chapter pasted here.
- Mistaken Identity? Mosaic in Israel Purported to Show Alexander the Great, but Some Not So Sure — 15 September 2016. Their page, not a chapter pasted here.
- The Celestial Snow White: Mary Magdalene, Moon Goddess – PART II — 3 March 2016. Their page, not a chapter pasted here.
- The Celestial Snow White – Ancient Tale, Hidden Cypher- PART I — 3 March 2016. Their page, not a chapter pasted here.
Explore the research behind this book
- The king of Edessa
- Saul and Josephus
- Matthew 23:35 — historical source, not a chapter of the book
- Luke 11:51 — historical source, not a chapter of the book
- Matthew 23:5–6 — historical source, not a chapter of the book
- Mark 12:38–39 — historical source, not a chapter of the book
Explore Related Research
His article on the same identification is on this site. It is his text, not a chapter copied from the book.
Jesus, King of Edessa
Lecture theatre
Lectures from this book
Lecture 2Jewish zodiacsin first-century synagogues
38:41. 23 March 2019. 20K views. YouTube.
Helios, the zodiac wheel, and what synagogue mosaics still admit about Judaean religion in the century of the gospels.
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Lecture 7Who led the Jewish Revolt?
52:18. 2 July 2019. 24K views. YouTube.
Command, treasury, and the named leaders of the Revolt — and which of them Ellis identifies with the gospel king.
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Lecture 9Jesus the King of Edessa
51:10. 21 July 2019. 63K views. YouTube.
The most-watched lecture: a king of northern Syria, a coin, a statue, and a name that was never only ‘Jesus of Nazareth’.
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Talk 1The Huqoq Alexander mosaic
30:56. 11 March 2019. 8.2K views. YouTube.
A Galilean synagogue floor and what its Alexander cycle is doing in a Judaean prayer house.
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Cleopatra to Christ
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