In this video I situate my work on the “Quest for the Historical Mary–Mother of Jesus,” in the broader shift in the Hellenistic world, in which a “Great Reversal” took place. Humans began to look to the heavenly world above as their true Home, whereas the earth was seen as a dark lower world into which we have fallen–strangers in a strange land. Extra-biblical, Un-biblical, and Non-biblical…but an idea that billions find irresistible. Transcendence does not require either “another world,” “death as a friend,” or a quasi-gnostic diagnosis of the human condition.
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