Was Jesus Phoenician?

Jesus the Phoenician by Karim El Koussa
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Who was Jesus? Was he the Messia or was he just a Jewish Rabbi or resistance fighter? Getting down to the nitty gritty we start to question if Jesus was even Jewish. Karim Al Kroussa speculates that Jesus was not only a non Jew but that he was Phoenician. While as a reader I am not entirely convinced of Jesus’s Phoenician identity the author does bring up several good points.

The author believes that Jesus was a member of a Phoenician healer sect called the Ashayas. These were the Galilee Essenes who believed in the loving god the Canaanite El. The Book of Isahia is really the book of the Asayas. In it there states that Immanuel is the name of the messiah. Not Jesus! I looked up Asayas on the internet and could not find any reference for them.
I would need more proof on the Book of Isahia being really the book of Asayas.

The author then goes into the Histroy of Mary’s parents and he believes that in one of the books they show her in a temple conversing with a divine figure that could be Gabriel, a priest or some other angelic being. The mother approached the bread and wine and the figure said she would have a child. That child Mary was then consecrated to the temple. This was not the temple in Jerusalem but one up north . The author makes good point when he states that often women did not have a big role in the temple and were not often accepted by the temples when it comes to Judaism. But in the Phoenician religion women were regarded as equal and Mary could have been held over to remain a version until the God El would impregnate her and give her Adon. Of course this story almost exactly mirrors the book of Samuel where in his mother cries in the temple for a child.

Geography does not lie. There is a Kfar Kana in Isrsel and a Kana is Lebanon near the city of Tyre. Nazareth was not yet a village and there was a Bet Lehen in Northern Israel. Joseph of Armimathea was from Remesh in Lebanon. In Lebanese Kana there is still rock portraits of the wedding. Jesus was born in the Northern Bethlehem in Galilee.

The author further notes that most of Jesus’s apostles and disciple were not Jews but rather followers from Other nations.The original disciples according to the author were Phoenicians except for two who were sent by the Jews to spy on him. The Galilee at the time was empty of Jews in fact the Maccabees rescued Jews from Galilee and it was empty of Jews until after the fall of the second temple.

The message of the Old Testament and the New Testament is like light and day. The Old Testament god comes off as a warrior god who is easily provoked to jealousy and will quite willingly punish if his laws are not obey. The Christian one is more loving and based upon forgiveness and mercy. The Christian way is Phoenician way. Upon this the author is correct.

It is not impossible that Jesus was not a Jew. After all Christianity is filled with Pagan concepts not present in Judaism and it is highly probable that he might not have been Jewish. After all he was not married and he grew is hair long.

None the less I am not entirely convinced Jesus was Phoenician. I am not entirely sure he really existed.


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