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Benjamín Urrutia or Benjamin Urrutia (born 1950), international author and scholar, was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Urrutia co-edited, with Guy Davenport, The Logia of Yeshua, which collected what they consider to be Jesus' authentic sayings from a variety of canonical and non-canonical sources. Urrutia interprets Jesus' mission to be that of a leadership role in the "Israelite nonviolent resistance to Roman oppression".
Urrutia contends that Rabbi Yeshua Bar Abba was the historical Jesus of Nazareth and was the leader of the successful nonviolent Jewish resistance to Pilate's attempt to place Roman eagles — symbols of the worship of Jupiter — on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. This episode is found in Josephus, who does not say who the leader of this resistance was, but shortly afterwards states that Pontius Pilate had Jesus crucified. (Some scholars believe this passage of Josephus may have been slightly but significantly altered by later editors. The Arabic version of Josephus is free from the apparent Christian interpolations, but still makes it clear that Pilate ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.) For further discussion of this theory see article on Jesus.
Benjamin Urrutia lived in Ecuador until 1968, and has lived since in the United States of America, save for the years 1974-1977, when he resided in Israel, studying the cultural and historical background of the life of Jesus. During this period he also participated in an archaeological excavation near Beersheba, contributed to the writings of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was interviewed by The Jerusalem Post.
Bibliography
- The Logia of Yeshua: The Sayings of Jesus. Translated and edited in collaboration with Guy Davenport (1996). ISBN 1887178708
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- "El or Yahweh? An Observation on Patai's Comment on Segler's Review." American Anthropologist December 1972.
- "About El, Asherah, Yahweh and Anath." American Anthropologist August 1973.
- "The Structure of Genesis, Chapter One." Dialogue 8:3-4. Published in 1973.
- "The Light of Eden." Newsletter and Proceedings of the Society for Early Historic Archaeology, number 154. 1983.
- "The Legendary Nimrod and the Historical Amenhotep III." Newsletter and Proceedings of the Society for Early Historic Archaeology, 155. 1983.
- "Family Conflicts." Mythlore 41. 1985.
- "The Cubits of the Temple Area at Jerusalem." Newsletter and Proceedings of the Society for Early Historic Archaeology, 159. 1985.
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