Of Piso’s later writings, Esther, I Chron.~ Daniel, Ecclesiastes (Koh~let), Zacharlah and Ruth appear here in a series for a reason. These were six books on which Aklva was required to place his signature and apparently also to translate into Hebrew. They end with Zachariah jUSt before Piso’s death in llS and before he had the opportunity to also include mention of Zachariah by insertion into Ezekiel. They start a few years after 105 with the writing of Father, wherein Akiva changed his Hebrew name from Yaacov which totals@ 182~ to Akiva which totaled 183. That was in order to insert his signature on the story which Piso had started with an 180 day feast in the third year of Ahas ueros’ reign. By this time a number of thlngahave become increasingly apparest: i. Aklva could not have written all these works alone. All except Ruth and perhaps Esther are massive books. He must have been the administrator of a schoo± of other rabbis and scribes. Th~ is hinted at in b. Me~illah Taanith 7a ~here he appears with two other rabbis, discussing the book of Fsther.. He is the middle one between R. ~leazar and R. Meir. This implies the other two were his collea~ues in the writing, and that he was the middle one in seniority, not the first. 2. Akiva was not the oldest of the rabbis who were writing. He must have been actually at most 80 when 5he Romans murdered him by tearing his flesh with hot combs
after Bar Cochbah’s revolt was crushed
in 135. Thus n? m~st have been born about 60. When he went with four other rabbis to Rome to confer with the certain min about the year 95 (96?), he was tl~ jm~ior rabbi present.
By this time, after i00, the small school was ensconced in Bnal Brak--no doubt too with Roman approval. By then they must have been "encouraged" and asEisted in setting up a scrlptorum in which to do the writings. The ha~adah, ritual book [or the Passover [east, written in the early 700s, mentions a conversation where rabbis had allegedly been up all night studying about the Passover, reclining (in ROman style!) at Bnai Brak. They continued until their pupils came to remind them they ~d re~ched morning and it was time to recite the Shema\~he prays r stressing the oneness o[ Go~ The rabbis named were~ Eliszer, Joshua, glazer the son o[ Azariah, Akiva~ and Tarphon. Jewish scholars have sur~sed they were plotting revolt against Rome.
Thatis incorrect. Theyhavebeenwriting by candlelight th o h the night, meetin~ a ~eadline imposed by Piso. Notice that the great Akiva was still not th~ senior rabbi. H~ had moved up one place [rom when th~ live rabbis went ~c ~ome, but he was only [ourth in precedence.
7. Since he had colleagues assi~ir~ the translations,
many
older than he~ why were their names not mention~d on their works as was his? H£a older youn~er
~llea~es
days when no dm~h~
had bean impo~ant
~F ~. priests
since their
and teachers
in the
~
Great Assem~ly~ in the Tsa~a~e.be$or~ ’i~s destruction in 70. The’ Talmud b.Bava ~asrah }~ attributes
~o the men of the G~eat Assemly
~he writin~ of Eeekiel~ the 12 m~-or prophets which included Zacharlah; and Danlel and ~he scroll of ~s~hero
i an l ;w y
bservt tanna
oft.e
first century), dedicat~n~ his life ~o the preservation o£ the Jewish people and religion, lend his efforts to tranecribln~ ~ictional works by ~he Pisos? Wh7 would he, a man oE faith~ dare ~o write new works which were supposedly written several hundred years pFeviously?
And why would he be so insistent and £oolhard~
to place his names, by various methods~ on all these writin~s? And suddenly the secret pieces fit together. The reason was basically the survival o~ the Jewish people and religion. Akiva and the o~h~r scholars must have been writin~ by ~ommand ~er£ormancs and lit~rally prophetic
so. Piso ~anted
o~ additional
books in the Hebrew bible in which ~o include more
foundations
for the prophecies
~hese new ("ancient") concepts
the creation
books
fulfilled
and including
would seem legitimate,
by Jesus.
That way~
~heir prophetic
in the Hebrew as well as the Greek.
I~ mus~ be stressed ~ha~ Judea was s~ill con~u£red land. Although depleted in population, le~ions were present or close at hand. The head of the school when it was still at Yavneh~ Rsbban G~m]iel of Yavneh, desc=ndan~ of the royal line of Hillel, was an appointee of ~he Romans. But it fell to young Aklva to supervise the writings. And he was required to place his name, in code, on all ~he translations he supervise~. If anyDhin~ was too boldly ane~hema to Piso’s ~reat secret~ he would know whom to blame!
Thus far the question c~se is
~
~ave
~f~c~t
~s~n~
to
~m~ns: why was it Akiva ~om Piso ~r
decipher,
It sends
us first
of the people"
these b~
not
to N~d~s.
~d becausee
~~n~
The
mystery
i~e. His n~s in Greek
of w~m he was based
~a~ "victory
on, was ~c~ of
the Judean defeat at the T~ple in the year 70. Justus first introduces (Jo~
as a ~ of the
3.1)--hence
In
3.2
by
h~ing
But
him
then
he
~s
m~es
him
s~
in 3.~
~t~
h~
a
~s
~ of
to Jesus, Jesus
~i~es,
a r~er
based
~ a very
Je~s--~
"r~,
te~i~
of t~ J~s
was
~ ~ ~u
questions
~ort~
done
co~
m~.
with
from
~u~
~od."
~r he is the
"teacher of Israel." Then After
~ Jo~ ~.3~0,
Jose~
J~tus
of ~i~thea
(19.3~),
~codemus
~paren~y
Jose~
sets
~osep~
~rth
obt~ns
~d Nico~mus,
t~t he works
Nicodemus’
Jesus’
bo~
from
h~.
Pilate
brings spices (19.39) ~d in ~.A~A~ "they" wrap
the bo~ in ~nen
spices ~d lay it in the garden tomb. a figure
why he has inserted
n~e,
~th Joseph a~eviat~d
with the
T~s Nicodemus
of ~imat~a to N~i,
is ~ imprint
in b~ng
is carried
~he bo~. ~a?d
to
becom~ o~e of t}~ five pupils whom th~ Talmud a~tributes to Jesus. Also the n~e Nak~mon (a close similarity
to the n~e Nicode~us)
ben Oorion, will appear in the T~mud. Back in his Jewish ~ar in 7~-80, Fiso had ~nored Shimon ~en G~li~ ~amaliel),descender of Hillel ~d leader of t~ besieged Jude~ forces in the Temple, by calling him bar Gioras, ~o~her great ~thagoras like himself. He did no~ c~l him ~n of G~ali~ because he feared to imply the revol~ was ~r religious reasons, which it was. This Shimon ben Gamliel was a fa~us rabbi, accepted by th~ Jud,ans as ~heir Icgitimat~ l~ader. Their
f~ily
had bee~
h~ been loyal ~o ~om~.
thewe~st
f~ily
in Judea.
Their
leadership
Now the Talmud had given patronymic, Justus’
Gorion.
Nicodemus~
Nakdimon
Shus it had borrowed and the Gorion
And when the Talmud
the Temple
mentions
is an insertion
(b.Gittin
that Nakdimon
ben O~mliel had his prayer continue
shining
What completes
Xalba
that this
alter ego of Shimon
the circle
to understanding is learning
(an obviously
Shimon
for the
19b),
with him ¯ (Ibid.).
Shabua’s
obvious
granted when he prayed for the s4~ to
fictional
who married young Akiva (b.Nadarim
the %ste£med
when the Romans
ben Gamliel.
the fictional
family~onnections
son Kalba Shabua
wealth
was (the
so he could repay a debt he had incurred
~ewi~sh people (b.Taani~h
of Akiva’s
for Shimon
ben Gorlon,
name from
be~Gorion
men in Jerusalem
56a), it becomes
of a pseudonym
This Nakdlmon
the Nakdimon
name from Piso’s Gioras.
first) one of the three wealthiest besieged
a form of the same honorable
true identity
that Nakdlmon
ben Gorion’s
name) had in turn a daughter
5Ca). -AkITa’s
Thus Akiva’s
ben Gamliel.
the importance
f~the~:~n;law.sha~
father-in-law’s
father
And even more so, his father
was probably
was in law~
that of the venerable
Rabban
Gamliel of Yavneh! This accounts at Bnai Brak.
for Piso choosing
It also accounts
been his (emphasis
added)
not formally
unofficial in imposing
lead,r,
school,
and for the fact that the older and directions.
the leader of the Judean
the one through
his will upon them.
the writings
for Bnai Brak being known as having
tannayim would respect his leadership although
him to superintend
Akiva~
tannayim,
whom Piso worked
was the
at the ~ime
~}%is
Akiva labored m~st assiduously to place his name on these translations. In being required to follow Piso’s Greek phaaseologyp he encountered dlf£iculties. This is perhaps best illustrated by the intricate pattern he was forced to use in I Chronicles with aleph, k~, yUd, plus "9"; and in Daniel with bet and ayin plus "3." He did this in compliancewith the Family’s orders and expecting it to be able to decipher these insertions of his name. And this shows how extensive Piso’s knowledge was, most probably through his Herodi~n k~nsmen~See Romans 16.1~ of the codes used in Hebrew by Akiva and the other tannaylm. Each side knew thoroughly what the other side was saying, secretly as well aa openly, in its writinEs. And thus the Family efforts to supplant the Jewish religion with its own newly-created Faith encompassed a two-front strug~le. There were of course the continuing wars. In addition a secret wa~ o~- literature was being contemporaneously conducted. It involved m~ny scholars, dictation-takers, scribes and messenger~ andscriptora in Bnai Brak as well as Rome. And in that literary struggle Aklva had been delegated by Piso to play a leading role. Piso must have "forgiven" Akiva’s attacks in the book of ~st~er on his great secret. Probably he "appreciated" his overall efforts. For the Family went back and added to Acts the names A~abus and Skevap to "honor" him. And thus it was that these six beautiful "ancient" books have existed and been used by Christians and Jews alike for almost 1900 years. Yet few have realized that Akiva’s name was encoded into the Hebrew versions, and why, when, where, and by whom they had actually been written~.
Yet Akiva’s Piso’s
forced
recent Greek
sole involvement identity
involves
There revolts
"biblical"
wrltin~s
in the great
struggle.
another~
of 115-117. Judean
Tha~ revolt all things
Rather~
But he was the leading
was supposedly Greek,
And i~ seems
because
was in~endin~ largely
neither
of his students
to assist
of his life.
in the widespread of Bar
the final great revol~. Emperor
Hadrian,
who loved
Jerusalem
to support
Bar Oohbah,
leaders
Bar ~ochbah family,
to even hint at a connection
Bar Cochbah. sent 25,O00
if he had not some~mw
They Mere the descendants
was nothing,
named Shimon
of
and
other than his name Shimon
with the leading family.
And
of ~abban Gamli~l 1 Yavneh, was believed to have been at Beitar, which was Bar Cochbah’s 2 ~i Alon Vol.II last stronghold durin~ the war. And a Sanhedrin sat there. Akiva
himself
catastrophic imprisoned
the family
as a Greek ci~ye
nor any of ~he Judean
were alternatively
Yet thus far ~here
even " thou~
his son’s secret
the grea~ Kkiva, who supposedly
from the leading
whose
was no5 his
supporter
to rebuild
r~fused
would have followed
descended
Gamliel.
inSo Hebrew
and the final, aspect
revolt of 132-135,
The other tannayim
Hillel,
wi~h Piso in translating
is no hint 5ha5 Akiva was involved
Gochbah’s
people,
cooperation
had a son named Shimon.
end of the Bar Cochbah
7
revolt,
And at the and before
and ~hen murder, d him, he d~livered
for his two sons, Shimon b.~Tb(1)
(descendants)
and (2).
and Ishmael
(b.Moed
~2Dp~..6217bid6 the ~omans
a funeral oration
Katan 21b and Semacho~
And we suddenly r~member that Bar Cochb~h’s, name,meaning son of a star, supposedly was taken from the H~brew biblical verse in the OT Numbers 2~.17 that includes "there steppeth forth a star out of Jacob." It is always assumed that the application of~is title to Bar Cochbah meant that he was a descendant of Jacob/Israel, that is of the Jewish people. Yet we suddenly recall that we have met the name Jacob previously: ~hat Akiva’s original name must have been Jacob before it was changed to Akiva. And we perceive that the reason this biblical verse was used as the origin of the meaning of Bar Cochbah’s name was to secretly hint that Bar Cochbah had come from that particular Jacob whose name was later changed to Akiva. That is, that he was Akiva’s son, and therefor~ the ~r~andson of Rabban Oamliel. And this shows that Bar Cochbah’s revolt was the last-gasp military effor~ by the family of Hillel’s descendants.
It was ¯
their last military effort against that other great Family in Rome which rul~d the world and was using its personnel and legions to spread its created Faith.
