The evidence I have discovered shows that Luke and Roman Government’s famous publication ‘Jewish War’ must have been written together and so must have the same origin - i.e. the Flavian Roman Government. This evidence includes:

1. The discovery of over 300 concealed parallels between Luke and 'Jewish War' involving both stories mutually parodying each other’s core narratives, which he argues to necessitate editorial control of both stories.
2. The discovery that over 250 of these parallels form a well-defined pattern clearly spelling out the Latin word "APTVS" when their locations in the two stories are plotted. Menasgotz claims this makes it unarguable that it could only have been achieved with editorial control of both stories.
3. The evidence also includes a specific way that both stories covertly evoke the steps of the Exodus 12 Passover ritual yet work together to arrange those parallels to help form the APTVS pattern. This also could not be achieved without editorial control over both documents. This provides an inpedendent way to show that the two stories were written together, without requiring the reader to appreciate that a series of parallels constitutes a parody or not.
4. I provide four statistical analyses, using quite different approaches, which together rule out both coincidence and biased selection of parallels, indicating the pattern is genuine and intentional. One of these analyses is available in my published pdf.
5. I also identify that some of the parallels contain riddles, equating Jesus in one story with Emperor Titus for example in the other, which points us towards what the intended message is. I use these parallels to identify not only the symbolic meaning of the pattern, but also the reason that the Gospels had been created.

So what would explain the nature, and indeed existence, of this evidence?

I have identified a scenario that explains all of this, and indeed many additional puzzling aspects of early Christianity.  

I propose that Emperor Vespasian and his son Titus commissioned the Gospels for use within a religion that they planned to establish in the AD 70s. In this new religion, faith in Jesus would be promoted, albeit only temporarily, and merely as a stepping-stone on a path towards emperor worship.

Their new religion aimed to drive both Jews and roman soldiers to worship Jesus as a precursor to revealing – under oath of secrecy – how Jesus’ story parallels Emperor Titus’ victories in extraordinary detail. This would help each temple to guide their believers to see Titus as the second coming of Jesus, and to worship him as God. 

However, once each cohort of followers was adequately hooked on Emperor worship, and the importance of Jesus' role had been downplayed the second parody (i.e. the way the stories mutually parody each other) and indeed the APTVS pattern, could then be revealed to them – again under oath of secrecy. This would be used to convince them that Luke must have been written with Jewish War, and thus Jesus’ story is merely a fictional parable about their new god, Emperor Titus. They might even be (falsely) told that Titus wrote Jesus' story himself, thereby increasing their awe of him. 

By undermining their faith in Jesus, the end goal would be achieved: Converting Jews and roman soldiers to become pure Emperor worshippers, who would exclusively see Flavian Emperor and his family as their supreme gods, particularly Titus.

The Means, Opportunity, and Motive to create Jesus' Gospel story. 

This goal - converting Jews, Legions and probably the masses as a whole - to purely worship their family, aligns perfectly with Vespasian and Titus' priorities. By promoting extreme loyalty to their family in the Roman Legions and among the Jewish population, they could prevent a resurgence or repeat of the two extremely recent wars: the civil war in Rome and the simultaneous great war suppressing Judea’s revolt which they had sacrificed much to win. By preventing more destabilizing wars, assuring social order and tax paying, and securing the Legions’ undying loyalty, they hoped to cement their family’s grip on the throne and avoid the grim fate famously suffered by their four recent predecessors. In short, it was largely about survival.

This shows that they had the strongest possible motive. Of course they also had the means to implement their plan, since they controlled all temples, as absolute authoritarian rulers. The opportunity was not only taking the throne, but destroying Jerusalem which left the Jews of the time believed to be the physical resting place of God, thus leaving them vulnerable to a new religious movement. 

In my book I show how the third Flavian Emperor, Domitian, intervened to make the Gospels promote god being threefold.For example he shows how triangle numbers are used in John and Acts, and I develop this, by showing that triple triangle numbers and triple "triangle-pair" numbers are used, all to develop a narrative that god is threefold. 

That said, I am not suggesting that the Flavian Government invented the idea of Jesus per se. It seems highly likely that the Pauline literature already existed. However what little it has to say about Jesus' story is extraordinarily minimal. It does say he was crucified and discusses some doctrines and a few sayings, but doesn't describe his birth, life, family, miracles, ministry, travels, parables, personality, passion story, or even what country he lived and died in. Being already known, yet also so very nearly a blank slate, made it an ideal story to use as a starting point, to help convince the people that the Gospel story was true, in order to help attract converts to the new religion. 

My work builds heavily on that of Joe Atwill. He showed that Jesus' story acts as a parable or parody of Titus, and I build on that by showing that Jewish War parodies Luke right back, and that the parallels have intentional pattern. Similarly Joe Atwill showed that Domitian was adding riddles about triangle numbers in John and Acts, and I build on this further, showing additional ways that this was done. My thesis however is different from that of Joe Atwill, in that he has been reluctant to tie himself to a specific reason that the roman's created Jesus' story in this manner, whereas I offer a very detailed scenario explaining why they did it and why they left evidence that it was they who did so.

It is natural to ask why such evidence has remained secret, and why this cult does not exist. The answer seems to be that their project ended with their untimely deaths, since later emperors would have no interest in anyone coming to worship the Flavians Emperors, let alone exclusively. 

This left Christianity as a minor religion until Constantine decided that faith in Jesus alone suited his needs, and we can see in Constantine's actions how intent he was to have Jesus seen as a real historical figure - even announcing that his mother found Jesus' cross preserved after two centuries, and that he discovered that the nails still had Jesus' magical power.

Extraordinary Explanatory Power

This explains not only the existence of the evidence Menasgotz uncovered, and why it was kept secret, but also many puzzling aspects of early Christianity:

•         Why Jesus suggests Jews should render taxes to the Emperor, roman soldiers should be content with low pay, and that the greatest faith in Israel is a roman military leader.

•         Why Jesus receives Emperor’s gifts and an Emperor’s purple robe, predicts his second coming to be revealed by the fall of Jerusalem (Emperor Titus’ doing), within forty years, and his rise on the third day (Titus' birth being the third day of 40 AD, in their calendar) and why Jesus comes with a sword and has a transfigured white face (Titus being a Caucasian Commander).

•         Why Jesus' story is written to evoke, and be attractive to, numerous faith backgrounds, indicates that hidden Gospel information will be revealed including Jesus’ identity, and emphasizes god being threefold.

•         Why both versions of Jewish War have references to Jesus’ story that seem ‘inserted’ at strange locations within their narratives (i.e. the result of inserting parallels at required locations to construct the APTVS pattern), but which later Christian apologists avoided mentioning. Why Luke is composed of short stories crammed together in a haphazard order (again, to arrange parallels in the right places to construct the APTVS pattern). Why Mark is aimed at a Roman audience and Matthew at a Jewish one, and why Matthew and Mark are in a different order from Luke (i.e. because this prevents those audiences discovering the APTVS pattern by themselves). 

•         Why John tells a slightly different story to the synoptic gospels, contains such emphasis on triangle numbers, and what I call 'triple triangle numbers' and 'triple triangle-pair' numbers, as well as emphasizing the role of a man who had not joined Jesus in Judea earlier, whose twin brother goes unnamed, and who mirrors Jesus going into a resurrection tomb and having his hands on Jesus' cross (i.e. part of a narrative suggesting all three Flavian Emperors are god, that Jesus had a twin, who represents Titus' brother Domitian, who had not joined Titus in Judea earlier).  

•         Why the Pauline literature shows zero awareness of almost the entirety of Jesus' life story, miracles, etc or even what country he lived in. Also why the Gospels appear to be written after the fall of Jerusalem which they describe (i.e. after 69 AD) whilst the Pauline literature appears to predate this. 

•         Why early Christian symbols are often found in Roman military sites, and why the early Church offered the Bible in a language the people couldn't read.

•         Why the cross wasn't a significant early Christian symbol compared to the fish (The biggest parallel between Luke and Jewish War involves - among many other similarities - both Jesus and Titus making their men be fishers of men on lake Galilee - as was shown by Joe Atwill. Meanwhile the crucifixion wasn't symbolically important to the Flavians - it was simply the main pre-existing detail offered in the existing Pauline literature that they decided to build their story around).

•         Why so many early writers have claimed, without claiming first-hand knowledge, that the Romans, indeed even Nero, persecuted early Christians (if it was of great importance to a succession of rulers to prevent anyone being able to imagine that Jesus' life story was written by the Roman Government, then making sure this would be the most well known 'fact' about early Christianity would be an excellent way to do it).

•         The book also explains the religious significance of the APTVS pattern message (beyond being an abbreviated name for an Emperor, that is). In addition to being a name that Titus was to be revealed as having, it relates to the Gospel message about he who is 'apt' to be in the kingdom of God, pushing the plough (the roman name for the big dipper). It also reveals hidden meaning behind many of the famous Gospel parables, from the Good Samaritan to 'he who is without sin cast the first stone', to the feeding of the five thousand. And much much more*

While these claims will surely spark debate, my work meticulously details the evidence and methodology behind these controversial findings, inviting academic scrutiny.