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This book is a fresh investigation disproving the notion, popular today among certain segments of the world's religious culture, that the Russian journalist Nicholas Notovitch definitely discovered, at an Indo-Tibetan monastery, a bona fide ancient Buddhist manuscript which allegedly described Jesus' travels to India and Central Asia before he then launched his well-know public ministry back in Israel.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Illustrations and Maps Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Acknowledgments and Special Thanks Chapter 5 An Important Advisory to the Reader Chapter 6 The Notovitch "Gospel" and Its Persistent Influence Chapter 7 Early "On-Site" Investigators: (a) Shah, Douglas and Filippi; (b) The Notion of "Eastern Diplomacy" Chapter 8 Early and Later Scholarly Inquiry Totally Discredits the Notovitch Claims: I. The Russian's Travel Accounts: Full of Falsehood; II. The Published Issa Text Itself: Proven a Fraud Chapter 9 The Cultural Climate That Gave Rise to the Notovitch Fraud: (a) A Brief Picture of Cultural Europe in the Nineteenth Century; (b) The Jacolliot-Laouenan Influence on the Issa Life; (c) Additional Influences of Nineteenth-Century Europe on the Issa T Chapter 10 The Astonishing Case of Holger Kersten Chapter 11 A Proper Biblical Exegesis Belies the Theory of Jesus' Missing Years: (a) Nicholas Roerich and the Spread of the Issa Legend in Asia; (b) Not Necessary for Jesus to Travel Eastward; (c) Ahmad Shah's Answer to the "Silent Years" Theory Chapter 12 The Genius of the Christian Message Chapter 13 Appendices: Text: The Life of Saint Issa, Best of the Sons of Men; The Notovitch Brothers: a Brief Portrait; Important Discrepancies between the Issa Text and the Canonical Scriptures; Scripture Passages Chapter 14 Endnotes Chapter 15 Index Chapter 16 A Note on the Author
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By Louis H. Fader
