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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
3:25 PM Happy Easter Well, sort of. Since it's around that time of year, I thought I'd reproduce a conversation that I read on a messageboard on the theme. It's stuff like this that gets me through the day... Was Jesus' pa Antipater, son of Herod? ----------------------------- RosyLovelady - 06:43pm Apr 9, 2006 GMT (#9 of 56) Just one tiny detail: wasn't Herod Antipater the father, or possibly the grandfather, of Herod the Great? Not the son, anyway. ----------------------------- lostitmi5 - 06:47pm Apr 9, 2006 GMT (#10 of 56) Just one tiny detail: wasn't Herod Antipater the father, or possibly the grandfather, of Herod the Great? Not the son, anyway. Antipater was Herod's father. Herod had a son named Antipater, also. I hope that helps. ----------------------------- RosyLovelady - 06:49pm Apr 9, 2006 GMT (#11 of 56) People who name their children after themselves, generation after generation, should be wheeled out and shot. It always ends badly. It usually starts badly, for that matter. ----------------------------- swamprat - 06:53pm Apr 9, 2006 GMT (#12 of 56) I agee, George Bush is a prime example! ----------------------------- raymie75 - 09:46pm Apr 9, 2006 GMT (#14 of 56) Antipater as Jesus' father is the premise of King Jesus by Robert Graves Antipater being the son of Herod ----------------------------- AllPreachRebellion - 09:43am Apr 12, 2006 GMT (#30 of 56) RosyLovelady - People who name their children after themselves, generation after generation, should be wheeled out and shot. Appropriately, 'Antipater' means 'like the father'. Though you wouldn't necessarily think that. ----------------------------- SalfordLad - 09:50am Apr 12, 2006 GMT (#31 of 56) I thought that 'antipater' was an Italian first course. ----------------------------- AllPreachRebellion - 09:51am Apr 12, 2006 GMT (#32 of 56) And 'innuendo' is an Italian suppository, right? ----------------------------- CaptLockheed - 09:51am Apr 12, 2006 GMT (#33 of 56) so if pater and antipater collide is there a massive explosion? ----------------------------- dottie30 - 10:48am Apr 13, 2006 GMT (#40 of 56) So there's a theory that Mary bonked one of the Herods hey? Seems rather far-fetched - what would a narcisstic king be doing with a pauper from Nazareth? ----------------------------- Luciagraphica - 01:12pm Apr 13, 2006 GMT (#41 of 56) Who sez they were paupers? BTW has anyone visited tribal cultures? Camps where illiterate and primitive people exist today are a good indication of the common lifestyle way back when. ----------------------------- CaptLockheed - 01:13pm Apr 13, 2006 GMT (#42 of 56) BTW has anyone visited tribal cultures? I grew up in Coventry, so yes. ----------------------------- policywatcher - 01:20pm Apr 13, 2006 GMT (#43 of 56) > Luciagraphica - 01:12pm Apr 13, 2006 GMT (#41 of 42) > Who sez they were paupers? Indeed, they probably weren't. Both claimed descent from the royal house. Joseph was a carpenter - a skilled trade in demand. Though not farmers, they could afford a beast of burden. The gifts at the birth were expensive by the standards of the day, and would have had significant commercial value, giving them a valuable additional capital boost to a family business. They could afford to go from Nazareth and visit the temple at Jerusalem - no small distance in those days. In modern terms they'd probably have been in the comparatively well-off self-employed tradesman class, with a nice house in the suburbs, at least a second-hand BMW on the drive, and able to take a nice holiday on the med. Leave a comment ::
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