Joseph Atwill
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Joseph Atwill is an American author. His only work to date is Caesar's Messiah, which argues that Christianity is a creation of a circle of individuals around the Roman Emperors Vespasian and Titus, whose purpose was to aid in subduing the Jewish people by providing an alternative to the warlike philosophy that spawned the first Jewish Revolt. Included in this effort are the works of the Jewish historian Josephus[1], which Atwill sees as written to complement the New Testament documents. Together the two sets of documents form an elaborate and satirical joke in which Jesus' movement across the province of Iudaea follows Titus' campaign in the Jewish War, and various events in the Jesus stories relate to events in Titus' campaign.
