Within Carotta 's theory the gospels are '' hypertexts '' after a '' diegetic transposition '' of Latin and Greek Roman sources ( '' hypotexts '' ) on Caesar 's life from the beginning of the Civil War , the crossing of the Rubicon , until his assassination , funeral and deification , conforming to Jesus ' mission from the Jordan to his arrest , crucifixion and resurrection . Textually transformed from Rome to Jerusalem in Caesar 's eastern veteran colonies , the Gospel narrative with its altered geography , dramatic structure , its characters and newly adopted cultural environment , would therefore have been written neither as a mimetic approximation of Caesarian attributes nor as a mythological amalgam , but as a directly dependent , albeit mutated rewriting ( '' réécriture '' ) of actual history
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Assassination of Julius Caesar
Francesco Carotta