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FEBRUARY – MARCH 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com NEXUS • 27THE ROMAN FATHER OF THE TWINS As with ancient Hebrew, Christian and Jewish names, it is also difficult to be exactly sure of the real names of many of the Roman characters with which we are dealing andmany irregularities arise. The allocation of names was unlike today's Western procedure,and a great many were purposely compounded with the names of Caesars, deities andhybrid variations such as Caracalla, Emperor of Rome, AD 211–217. "Caracalla" was aname derived from a long tunic worn by the Gauls, which he adopted as his favouritedress after he became Emperor. His proper name was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. The name Caesar developed from "caesarian", being the nature of the birth of Julius Caesar. Sometimes a new name was afterwards substituted for the original one, just asPlato was originally called Aristocles. The Jewish name of the first-century historianJoseph ben Matthias became Titus Flavius Josephus when he took Roman citizenship latein life. A popular loan-name among Roman men was Silvanus, 39which developed from the Roman god of "uncultivated land beyond the boundaries of tillage". A man with the nameof Silvanus was depicted as "uncanny and dangerous". In many cases the name was notgiven until the person was grown up, and it was then adapted from personal qualities, suchas Modestus, Servus ("from a servile condition"), or the name of an historical celebrity,Cornelia being one instance. In another Roman tradition, the name was sometimes a ref-erence to peculiar circumstances at birth, e.g., Lucius, born by day; Manius, born in themorning; Alphus, the first born; Quintus, the fifth born; and Decimus, the tenth born. Asa rule, the eldest received the praenomen (Christian name) of his father, and this helps todetermine exactly who Tiberius Julius Abdes Panthera, as it appears on the headstone atBingerbrück in Germany, really was. The name Tiberius Julius is the first part of the full name of Tiberius, Emperor of Rome, 40the adopted son and heir of Emperor Augustus. Whether Tiberius was a native of Sidon in Phoenicia, as recorded on the headstone, is difficult to establish for there are con-flicting references to his birthplace. When he was very young, Tiberius' parents were infear of their lives through the uncertainty of the civil war, where wrong political alle-giances could result in early death. His childhood and youth were beset with hardships and difficulties, because ClaudiusNero and Livia [his parents] took him wherever they went in their flight from Octavius... He was next hurried all over Sicily... His parents finally fled to Greecebut were still in pursuit...escaping with him from Sparta at night. 41 The Monumentum Ancyranum42reports that at one stage the family sailed from Phoenicia to Egypt to avoid persecution. With such persistent pursuers it was probablethat the family lived at Sidon in Phoenicia and left when they were found, but this infor-mation was not publicly recorded. The words that are important in establishing whether or not the headstone actually referred to Emperor Tiberius are "Panthera" and "Abdes". In order to understand thisinscription, it shall be shown that the headstone was composed well after the time of theevents in question and therefore benefited from the hindsight of history. There appearedto be a very deliberate plan in place in the manufacture of this headstone, and whoeverwas responsible for its construction knew the essence of what is revealed in this book. Itsunknown creator encoded vital information in the form of a cipher and anagram, whichTTHEHEBBIBLEIBLEFFRAUDRAUD The Church went out of its way to suppress the knowledge that Jesus had an identical twin brother, Judas Thomas, and that their father was Tiberius, who later became Emperor of Rome. Part 2 of 3 by Tony Bushby © 2001 Extracted from chapters 2 and 3 of his book The Bible Fraud Published in 2001 by The Pacific Blue Group Inc., Hong Kong Website: www.thebiblefraud.com