John of Gamala

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John of Gamala was, according to Luigi Cascioli, an Italian ex-seminarist and now an atheist, a person whom the Catholic Church deliberately conflated with Jesus to build up their religion. Cascioli claims that his book The Fable of Christ is a decisive collection of proof demonstrating that Jesus is the result of manipulation and falsification of documents which in reality refer to a certain John of Gamala, son of Jude the Galilean and grandson of the rabbi Ezechia, a direct descendant of the Hasmonean dynasty founded by Simon, son of Mattathias the Maccabean.

The paternal lineage of Jesus/John of Gamala that is given by Cascioli is as follows:

Mattathias (founder of the Hasmonean line, heir to the Davidic throne)
Simon, son of Mattathias
John Hyrcanus I, son of Simon
Alexander Jannaeus, son of John Hyrcanus I
Aristobulus II, son of Alexander Jannaeus
Ezekias, direct descendant of Aristobulus II
Judas of Galilean, son of Ezekias
Jesus, son of Judas, Oldest brother of Simon Peter, James the great, Judas Thaddeus, Jacob, Menahem, *Eleazar, and two unnamed sisters. Husband to Mary Magdalene and brother in law to Lazarus. True name: John of Gamala, the Nazarite/Nazarene.

John of Gamala is also the name of a fictional character who features in a nineteenth century novel called "For the Temple" by G. A. Henty. The book depicts him as a heroic figure who fought the Romans especially when they made plain their plans to destroy the Temple in Jerusalem (70 A.D.). Later in the novel he becomes a follower of Jesus. Henty states in the preface to the book that John of Gamala is his own creation.