> [comment. the suffering savior of the end times was the (now obscure) failed messiah tradition in judaism. this other messiah was a precursor to the cosmic, davidic messiah. c. torreys important article on this failed messiah tradition is found complete on this website in five parts, beginning here. of course, deep resonances exist between it and the new testament jesus, a crucified messiah who gave his life to save his people. that this rabbinic failed messiah tradition relates also to ephraim, the ancestor of the northern samarians/samaritans (ephraimites) suggests that we must look first to the samarians/ephraimites/samaritans for the failed messiah tradition. the northern locus of this tradition is also suggestive: samaria and galilee. torrey concludes: the conception of the suffering messiah = the son of ephraim led directly to the conception of the christian messiah, jesus.r.s.] > he is portrayed like a shepherd by virgil in the first century b.c., similar to dumuzi, and a fourth century commentary adds that this was because adonis was formerly a shepherd. dumuzi is also referred the fisherman as son of enki/abzu, a symbol also used for jesus disciples, who are described as fishermen who were then called by jesus to become fishers of men > jerome claims that the birth shrine of jesus in bethlehem was rededicated to tammuz-adonis, but the shrine more likely originated with tammuz-adonis since the word bethlehem means house of bread or house of lahmu. lahmu is the serpentine gatekeeper of dumuzis father enki, a role that was typically given to an earlier manifestation of the god himself, just as dumuzi and gizzida appear to have some links to ancient serpent gods from the prehsitoric ubaid era. a 13,000-year-old stone figurine of two lovers embracing, similar to those of dumuzi and inanna, was discovered in the ain sakhri caves near bethlehem
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