"Atwill talks about blatant Roman humour that is tied up in the Gospel that educated people would have laughed at at the time.
I think he makes a reasonable case, I'm wondering if I might actually read his book."
Really ?
Please do read his book as I would be interested to hear what you think about most of the far fetched "parallelisms" and conjectures which seem more to be attention seeking controversy for the sake of book sales and notoriety.
No doubt his next book will provide proof that J. S. Bach was just a Protestant Sunday school teacher who liked to mess around on the local Church harpsichord in between classes and most of the music attributed to him was actually written by Prince Leopold.
Beethoven was just a hard of hearing piano player who accidentally wrote Symphonies by putting a wooden rod between his ear and the piano. Mozart was of course just a precocious show off kid.
