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The King Jesus Trilogy · Vol. 2 · 2008

King Jesus
King Jesus

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King Jesus

By Ralph Ellis

Prince of Judaea and Rome

2024 edition, v11.2

Jesus, King of Edessa is the third volume of the trilogy, and it looks for that king in the record of Edessa.

If the gospel figure was a king, which king, and in which war? King Jesus, the second volume of the trilogy, continues the identification begun in Cleopatra to Christ. Ellis presents him as King Izas, a wealthy commander of the Jewish Revolt: crucified, reprieved, and exiled to a Roman prison in Britain, and later remembered there as Arthur. The same volume argues that Saul, called Paul, is the historian Josephus Flavius. These are Ellis’ identifications, not the standard dating of the gospels. Readers who have followed the royal line out of Egypt meet, in this volume, the revolt, the exile, and the first turn toward Britain.

What you'll explore

  • St Paul (Saul) as Josephus Flavius
  • Jesus as King Izas, leader of the Revolt
  • The British exile that became the Arthur legend

ISBN 9781508476788

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Christianity is the Church of Saul, not JesusLecture 3

Christianity is the Church of Saul,not Jesus

1:02:05. 6 April 2019. 25K views. YouTube.

The religion that survived is Paul’s. Ellis reads that as a political substitution, not a misunderstanding.

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Essene and Templar communistsLecture 4

Essene and Templar communists

43:05. 30 January 2019. 26K views. YouTube.

Shared property, a warrior priesthood, and a through-line Ellis draws from Qumran to the Temple in Jerusalem to the Temple in the West.

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With The Grail Cypher

The Jewish RevoltLecture 5

The Jewish Revolt

1:01:35. 18 May 2019. 20K views. YouTube.

The war of the 60s as the real setting of the gospel drama — chronology shifted backward to the 30s, and a king hidden inside a carpenter.

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Who led the Jewish Revolt?Lecture 7

Who 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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Josephus, the ambassador of EdessaLecture 8

Josephus,the ambassador of Edessa

30:23. 8 July 2019. 14K views. YouTube.

Josephus not merely as a historian of the war, but as a court figure whom the books also name Saul.

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Jesus in EnglandLecture 10

Jesus in England

33:58. 24 September 2019. 41K views. YouTube.

Exile after the Revolt: a Roman prison in Britain, and the seed of the Arthur cycle.

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King Arthur — a Knights Templar storyLecture 12

King Arthura Knights Templar story

1:12:22. 12 April 2020. 26K views. YouTube.

The round table as the last supper table; Arthur as the British name of an exiled Judaean king, kept by a later military order.

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Water to wineTalk 7

Water to wine

33:37. 17 June 2019. 4.7K views. YouTube.

The gospel account of water turned into wine. Ellis identifies it with a first-century device of Heron of Alexandria. Taken from the King Jesus Trilogy.

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Sex in the scripturesTalk 12

Sex in the scriptures

33:01. 18 June 2020. 5.8K views. YouTube.

Rachel and the mandrakes. In the King Jesus Trilogy the Hebrew is read as a mistranslation, and the passage is about sex.

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