grants them the odd accolade or two. Whether this is a publishing aberration aided by backing religious censors is not clear, but without doubt many a revolutionary study remains outside the barriers of different countries in the same manner that the Inquisition “literary bonfires” did its work. The fact remains that in a shameful way, new knowledge is deflected and sanitized making the translation of the original work by honest publishers a worthless exercise .This writer, at least, had foreseen its potential and explains the seedy, copyright precaution taken to ensure that it would remain so. Here’s hoping that Harper Collins will do something about it.
History of Manipulation.
It also happened with dramatic results in the aftermath of the centralisation and state control of Christianity at the time of the Emperor Constantine. Today, much of what we consider genuine in the ancient texts are defined as “extrapolations” or altered copies designed to provide sanitized, manipulated evidence. The Josephus texts which are probably the only ones which can be taken seriously but which are not conclusive (in so far as identifying Jesus is concerned), are often utilised as proof of his existance and divine origins. These Slavonic Josephus texts of “The Jewish Wars” offer different versions of the short mention of one who could be Jesus. This is clear evidence of interference. Where one talks of divinity, the other talks of impressive personality. Where one talks of physical beauty, the other talks of a wispy beard and a a possible back or neck deformity. Such are the means and wherefores that keep the man in the street well supplied with what is considered suitable for his status, by the lofty autocratic religious
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