Francesco Carotta
Francesco Carotta (* 1946 in Ca'Zen di Lusia, Italy ) is an Italian author. It was founded in 1999 by the book Was Jesus Caesar? known, in which he argues, Jesus of Nazareth was a fictitious person, the New Testament representation modeled on the life of Julius Caesar, and after the cult of Divus Iulius deified was designed. The thesis is ignored by the historical Jesus research.
Life
Francesco Carotta was born in 1946 in Ca'Zen at Lusia ( Rovigo province / Veneto, Italy). His mother was Margherita dressmaker from a farming family. His father Rodolfo (* 1913, † 1998), a learned painter, came from a family of entrepreneurs and was from 1948 to 1951 socialist mayor of Lusia.
Carotta initially joined into a seminary of the Redemptorist, but was released. He then attended a technological Technical School and graduated as Perito Industriale Capotecnico in chemical engineering. He first worked as a laboratory technician and then moved to France where he worked as a medical technician at the University of Dijon in Burgundy studied philosophy and graduated with a Licence ès Lettres. After 1968 he studied Polemology in Strasbourg and taught philosophy in Mulhouse. He later moved to Germany to study linguistics, Romance languages and German Literature at the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe- University Frankfurt am Main, where he received a degree as a certified interpreter and translator.
Carotta initially remained in Frankfurt, where he worked at the University as a language teacher, translator and tutor. During this time he led founded or social programs, education initiatives for migrant workers and Italian cultural centers. He was active in the political left and the '68 movement and worked as a freelancer for alternative publishing houses such as the Stroemfeld Verlag, a municipal theater and the ID information service. In the 1970s, he initially returned to Italy, where he worked as a journalist for several magazines and newspapers. In Bologna, he was co-founder of Radio Alice.
1980 had Carotta in Frankfurt structure of Gallus center for youth culture and new media with and then worked as director of the Casa di Cultura Popolare. Later he moved to Freiburg, where he founded the company Legenda information systems for text recognition and computer. Furthermore, he worked in Paris for Cora, a company that specialized in software linguistics and artificial intelligence. As managing director and editor, he supported Kore, a Freiburg publisher of feminist books and women's literature. At the University of Music Karlsruhe, he taught Italian language and diction.
Later Carotta studied at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, ancient history, archeology and philology. Its original focus on Lorenzo Valla shifted to the cult of Divus Iulius and the possible influences of Roman religion on early Christianity. In the 1990s he left Kore and his company to devote himself to his research, about which he had already published in the 1980s, preliminary studies. Carotta lives in Kirchzarten near Freiburg.
Thesis to Jesus of Nazareth
Published in 1999 Cartotta his book Was Jesus Caesar? He represents in the thesis, Jesus of Nazareth was not the as the present it early Christian sources - a Jew from Galilee - but the Roman statesman Gaius Julius Caesar, from whose cult had developed over several generations Christianity.
Core of Carotta book is a philological comparison of Mark with ancient sources over the years Caesar and his immediate afterlife, including primarily with the historiographical works of Appian, Plutarch and Suetonius, who resorted to various extents on the lost Historiae Gaius Asinius Pollio. Carotta suspected, the historical work Pollio was a Latin original Gospel and the curriculum vitae and a cult of Julius Caesar described therein was subsequently translated into Greek, transferred to the fictional person of Jesus, and was relocated to Galilee and Judea. 2008 Advanced Carotta his thesis to Jesus to Genette's theory of " diegetic transposition ".
In 2009, he studied for the Theological Academy of the Archdiocese of Seville's Orpheos Bakkikos, an allegedly forged syncretic Christian artifact that is intended to represent the crucifixion of Christ.
Since then Carotta has written several articles and translations of his book. He worked on documentaries about Caesar and Jesus gave university lectures and reconstructed Caesar's funeral ceremony in Spain on the basis of historical sources.
Reception
In Germany in 2000, discussed some reviewers in newspapers, the German edition of Carotta book. Arno Widmann saw it as a " parody of science " Albert Sellner a large-scale "historical transformation ".
In the Netherlands, the historian Anton van Hooff Carotta designated thesis in 2002 as a " new pseudo-science ". Roberto Lobosco established 2010 found that churches and university theologians Carotta thesis in the "realm of fables " and referenced the author einstuften as a " fantasist ". In Italy, the ancient historian Luciano Canfora Carotta called the book " original " and saw the apotheosis of Caesar and Jesus after her death, a possible parallel.
Writings
- Was Jesus Caesar? 2000 years worshiping a copy. Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-15051-5.
- Holger Heide: Bologna. Notes on a model of reformed rule. In: Barbara Herzbruch (ed.): Yearbook Policy 8 - The Red Army Faction and the Left. Vol 8, Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-8031-1082-3.
- Revista de Arqueología. # 348, Vol 31, Zugarto (MC Ediciones ), Madrid 2010 ISSN 0212-0062, pp. 40-49.