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deliberately because two separate authors could not have recorded such a combination of precise prophecies and dates by chance. The Puzzle of the Empty Tomb My reading of the combined story of Jesus' resurrection is perhaps the clearest proof of the Flavian origin of Christianity. This is because the story was designed to be a way of proving beyond a doubt that creating the Gospels as satire was the real intent of its authors. This proof also has the advantage of being, if incorrect, so easy to disprove. Experts in probability can either confirm or deny the conclusions in this work and the truth will out. This work was in no way created as a criticism of the faith of contemporary Christians. I felt required to present my findings because of the light they shed on the origin and purpose of both anti-Semitism and the moral structure of Western societies. I realize that some will find the conclusions of this work disorienting. Symbols long thought to have been based on Christian love may really be images of Roman conquest. Even the belief that our culture is Judeo-Christian may be incorrect, in that it may have been completely shaped by Roman "religious" influence. Most unnerving to me is this question: What would Western civilization be like if, instead of emerging from the Christian tradition, it had emerged from a culture that worshiped strength and scorned weakness? It is also hard to accept that so many have missed the obvious clues left by the creators of Christianity to inform us of the true origin of the religion. While many of the puzzles are difficult to see and solve, it is simply amazing that no one has noticed heretofore that Titus' campaign had a conceptual outline parallel to Jesus' ministry. This is not a difficult thing to see and should have been common knowledge centuries earlier. Homo sapiens failed to earn its title in this instance. Though Christianity may have begun as a cruel joke, it has become the basis for much of humankind's moral progress. I present this work with great ambivalence, but truth is a whole, and no part should be hidden. During the turmoil that is about to descend, we should all remember the words of Jesus: "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free."