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>The first gospel stories of Jesus are believed to have been written right after the war since so much of the death of Jesus is interpreted through the lens of the destruction of Herod's Temple in Jerusalem by Josephus' Roman messiah, Titus, in 73 CE Like the Book of Daniel, the Gospel of Mark, associated the death of the Messiah with the end of the world, and so a story about the messiah Yeshu, like that found in the Talmud, would have a problem resonating with people in the late first century since that was so long ago. Why would the death of a man almost 140 years ago have anything to do with what was happening then? An event 40 years previous was more prescient. But is it really possible that the gospel story about the first century CE Messiah could have been based on an earlier proto-gospel about the first century BCE Messiah? There is, in fact, strong evidence that such a proto-gospel once existed in the form of a satirical anti-gospel written in Aramaic, providing a scornful biography not of the canonical Jesus, but of the Talmud's Yeshu
