Benjamin Urrutia (1950-), international author and scholar, was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Santiago de Guayaquil, or just Guayaquil is the largest city in Ecuador, as well as that nations principal sea port. ... The Republic of Ecuador is a country in northwestern South America, bounded by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean on the west. ...
Urrutia co-authored, with Guy Davenport, The Logia of Yeshua (1996), which collected what they consider to be Jesus' authentic sayings from a variety of canonical and non-canonical sources. Urrutia interprets Jesus' mission to be that of a leadership role in the "Israelite nonviolent resistance to Roman oppression." Guy Mattison Davenport Jr. ... Canonical--an adjective derived from canon--essentially means standard or generally accepted or part of the backstory. ... The neutrality and accuracy of this article are disputed. ... Roman or Romans has several meanings, primarily related to the Roman citizens, but also applicable to typography, math, and a commune. ...
Author of Slanted Gloria. Editor of LDSF2: Latter Day Science Fiction 2 and LDSF3. Translator of the Spengler Module. Contributor to the Writings of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Utah Historical Encyclopedia, and other scholarly endeavors.
See article "Jesus as a Leader of Nonviolent Resistance."
Urrutia interprets Jesus' mission to be that of a leadership role in the "Israelite nonviolent resistance to Roman oppression".
Urrutia contends that Rabbi Yeshua Bar Abba was the historical Jesus of Nazareth and was the leader of the successful nonviolent Jewish resistance to Pilate's attempt to place Roman eagles — symbols of the worship of Jupiter — on Jerusalem's Temple Mount.
BenjaminUrrutia lived in Ecuador until 1968, and has lived since in the United States of America, save for the years 1974-1977, when he resided in Israel, studying the cultural and historical background of the life of Jesus.
This episode is found in Josephus, who does not say who the leader of this resistance was, but shortly afterwards states that Pontius Pilate had Jesus crucified.
The Arabic version of Josephus is free from the apparent Christian interpolations, but still makes it clear that Pilate ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.) For further discussion of this theory see the articles on the Historical Jesus and on Barabbas.
BenjaminUrrutia has been a book reviewer since 1970 and a film critic since 1981.
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