 The
Childhood of Jesus
The Unknown Years
by Emil Bock
The Childhood
of Jesus - Emil Bock: The gospel accounts
of the birth and childhood of Jesus have puzzling discrepancies and
contradictions which biblical scholars have tended to ignore. In
particular, Matthew and Luke give quite different versions of the
genealogy and nativity of Jesus, as well as the events which follow.
These have been often excused by the assumption that the
gospel writers were not writing "history."
But a long obscured
tradition held that there were two families and two "Jesus boys" -
one from the kingly line of Solomon, the other from the priestly
line of Nathan - whose destinies were to join and be fulfilled
through the divine plan. This forgotten tradition is reflected in
early apocryphal texts, as well as in many later works of art in
which both children clearly occur.
Bock shows how the
pattern and structure of the four gospels support the stories of the
descent, birth and childhood of the two boys called Jesus, living
side by side in Nazareth until the age of twelve, right up to the
dramatic day of their visit to the Temple in Jerusalem.
He also recreates
the enigmatic years between this time and Jesus' baptism in the
river Jordan at the start of his ministry, years which saw a strong
Essene influence on his spiritual development.
This volume also
includes two of the apocryphal gospels - the Pseudo-Matthew and the
Arabic gospel - which illustrate the twofold character of the Jesus
boys.
Floris Books
318pp; paperback
ISBN: 978 086315 619 9
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The Childhood of Jesus - Emil Bock
 The
author was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1895. He studied German and
theology, receiving his licentiate in 1921. He was one of the
founder priests of The Christian Community, a movement for Christian
renewal, and led the movement from 1938 until his death in 1959.
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