This hypothesis makes the story of Jesus plausible. It explains why the story was momentous enough to remember, and why it was mythologized in such a way. It explains the authority Jesus had even as a child, and it provides a reasonable basis for the Davidic claim. It also explains the information gap in the life of Jesus between childhood and adulthood, (Antipater with his mother, Doris, were banished from Herod's court for most of his life).
Perhaps the man remembered as John the Baptist was actually Costobar, the husband of Salome.
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