Ralph Ellis - Cleopatra to Christ: Jesus was the great grandson of Queen Cleopatra

First and foremost I would like to dedicate this book to Mr A J Bethell, who researched and ruminated on this same topic nearly 100 years ago and deposited his resulting manuscript in the British Library. It is my belief that Mr Bethell missed much of the available evidence and arrived at the wrong conclusions; however, the manuscript he created was certainly the inspiration upon which this book was founded.

Secondly, I would like to thank Mike Dash, who wrote a letter to the Daily Mail listing the many bizarre book titles he had found. Among these titles was the manuscript by Mr Bethell, which is how I discovered it. In Mike Dash's defence, it has to be admitted that Mr Bethell's argument, that Jesus was the son of Queen Cleopatra, stretched both chronology and biology to its very limits. However, Mr Bethell had also highlighted a number of key points that allowed me to discover the real truth about the ancestry of Jesus. My thanks to both of you.

Finally I would like to thank Margaret, my travelling companion on my tour of Jordan, whose knowledge of history and the classics was inspirational and made the trip memorable. If I can be as youthful at the age of 83, I will consider myself very lucky.

Ralph Ellis
November 2006
Cheshire.

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The King Jesus Trilogy

by Ralph Ellis

Cleopatra to Christ

The New Testament says that the infant Jesus was visited by the Magi of Persia-Parthia, and that he was educated in Egypt. Jesus also appears to have been of royal blood, and crowned as the King of the Jews. The implication is that Jesus was of both Egyptian and Persian royal blood, but that his family were exiled to Judaea in about AD 4. This may appear to be an impossible family history to discover in the historical record, but there was a royal family from the early first century AD that fits all of these diverse requirements - the influential but largely forgotten Queen Thea Muse Ourania, an exiled Egypto-Persian queen.

the sequel to Cleopatra

King Jesus

This ground-breaking book firstly revisits the suggestion that Saul (St Paul) was Josephus Flavius, and proves this connection beyond doubt. It then discovers that (King) Jesus was mentioned in the works of Josephus, where he is called King Izas of Adiabene, a descendant of Queen Thea Muse Ourania. King Jesus-Izas and Queen Mary Magdalene were not only campaigning for the throne of Judaea, but also for the Imperial throne of Rome. This was a threat that the Romans could not ignore and so King Jesus was confronted, defeated, crucified, reprieved, and exiled to Chester in England.

All research is from original sources, including the Tanakh, Talmud, Josephus, Origen, Eusebius, Irenaeus, Herodian, Suetonius, Tacitus, Clement and many others besides. The conclusions in this book may be astounding, but the research is meticulous and the evidence consistent.

the sequel to King Jesus

Jesus, King of Edessa

The archaeological evidence in Mesopotamia for Josephus Flavius King Jesus-Izas is lacking. However, the ancient Syriac chroniclers say that King Izas (Jesus) was actually the king of Edessa in northern Syria, another influential monarchy that has been largely deleted from the ancient chronicles. And this revised identification and location for this royal family fits the gospel stories like a glove. Now we really do know who the biblical Jesus was. Visit his city, see the ruins of his citadel, gaze upon his statue, handle his coins. In reality, the biblical Jesus-Izas was a son of King Abgarus V of Edessa, a princeling with a small realm, a large treasury, and even bigger ambitions. But the wise prince of northern Syria came up against an intractable Rome, and his many plans crumbled to dust. The jacket image of this book shows King Jesus-Izas wearing a Crown of Thorns, the ceremonial crown of the Edessan monarchy

Also by Ralph Ellis

the companion to King Jesus

Mary Magdalene, Princess of Orange

Did Mary Magdalene travel to Provence, in France? Ralph follows the trail of mythology and reveals compelling circumstantial evidence that she did, and that her presence has left its mark on the history of the region. In addition, Ralph suggests that the legacy of Mary Magdalene was bequeathed upon the city of Orange in southern France, the city that was central to the Royal Dutch House of Orange, and thus central to the entire Reformation and Enlightenment movement.

the companion to Jesus of Edessa

The Grail Cypher

The legends of King Arthur were brought back from Syrio-Judaea in the early 12th century by the Knights Templar. And they chronicle events that occurred in 1st century Judaea, not 6th century Wales. Which is why Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote the first detailed Arthurian account at this very time, using a Norman-Bretton manuscript.

The Egyptian Exodus Series

Jesus, Last of the Pharaohs