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Fotis kavoukopoulos phd Foreword to ? Jesus was Caesar ? http www carotta de Reading Francesco Carotta ? s book has fascinated me as would a novel leading the mind of the reader step by step to the solution of an obscure intrigue This voyage was like a li

Foreword to ? Jesus was Caesar ? http www carotta de Reading Francesco Carotta ? s book has fascinated me as would a novel leading the mind of the reader step by step to the solution of an obscure intrigue This voyage was like a liberating and exhilarating breath of fresh air which progressively swept away prejudices and received ideas But if this push towards my illumination succeeded ??even beyond the author ? s contribution to any number of methodological presuppositions concerning philology social psychology ethnology and the connection of political history with theology ?? it was because of his audacity to attack the words themselves of the Gospels in order to map out their hidden side not simply their history but especially the irresistible dynamics of their dislocation This is not to say that Saussure had not prepared me in theory for this shock The linguist who had worked extensively on anagrams and who had warned well about what can happen to a tradition in the course of its transmission writes in one of his notes ? Imagining that a legend commences Cwith a meaning has still the same meaning since its ?rst inception or even to imagine that it cannot have had any meaning at all is an operation beyond my comprehension ? It is the opposite of what the savants have done with the texts originating from oral traditions by superposing on the logic and economy of the oral productions their identitary vision of the edition of written texts It is the case for the Homeric oral tradition where the entirely natural variations in every oral recitation by every bard are traced back to a single invariable text that is supposed authentic According to the working hypothesis of the book that is also the case for a Hellenistic text coming from a certain manuscript tradition like the Gospel of Mark whose Latin origin would be incompatible with the idea of a text transmitted once and for all by the deity Actually here philology and theology ?nd their common limits and point of departure the truth of meaning be it that of the order of mythology or of religious revelation can only be guaranteed in the closed universe of a controlled scripture Scripta manent ? The presentation of Mr Carotta has the advantage of recognizing the major importance of dislocations and slips from one form to another and from one meaning to another in the transmission of an ancient oral or written text CThe fault that was opened due to technical failings of the means of oral transmission has allowed e g in the dynastic courts of Ionia of the eighth century BC the appropriation of ancient Mycenaean oral poetry and from it the making of those Homeric poems that glorify the ancestors of the princes and even the colonization of Ionia the failings in the transmission of manuscripts would have allowed certain dominant groups in the orient at the time of the Imperium Romanum to make the