The Name is IZAS — Ralph Ellis on the ORIGINAL Name of Jesus

The Quest for the Historical Jesus has been going on for two centuries — but with not all that much to show for it. Now we’re at a place where many people do not believe that Jesus was a historical figure at all, but just sort of “made up.“ But according to Ralph Ellis, he’s been hiding in plain sight: Jesus is in the pages of history and was a MAJOR FIGURE in the course of empires. In this discussion with host Timothy Virkkala, Mr. Ellis focuses in on the name of Jesus, as dealt with in the three books he’s written with Jesus in the title: • Jesus, Last of the Pharaohs — where Ellis puts Judaism and Christianity into an Egyptican context • King Jesus — where pointers in the work of Josephus and the Babylonian Talmud and Arthurian myth show that he was not a mere itinerant preacher and “carpenter’s son“ • Jesus, King of Edessa — where Mr. Ellis finds the exact persons in actual history that became the major figures in the Gospels, down to specifi