What is your PhD going to be about? And another thing I've been wondering about: Just why was the world's first fully literate society not in Europe, Asia or even North America?
Did Jesus live in India?
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I guess you can ignore my psot in the othert hread.Taliesin said:Nice one. That was really an excellent book, by the way, Plotinus. I haven't been able to find the more serious one yet, though-- for some reason the McGill library doesn't even possess a copy.
Plotinus, do you know anything about the Issa stories in Islam mentioned above?
Not much. You can see the relevant chapters of the Koran here. Note that the basic thrust is that Isa is a prophet of Allah but nothing more. The passages betray a sometimes limited understanding of Christian theology - 5.116 apparently thinks that the Christian Trinity is composed of God, Jesus, and Mary, a misconception shared by some Muslims even today. There is certainly no mention of Kashmir or any other burial place here - 3.55 seems to me to indicate that Isa didn't get buried at all, but I don't know what the standard Muslim interpretation of this passage is.
I don't think that many scholars regard the sayings attributed to Jesus in these passages to be of any historical value - they are simply far too late and previously unattested to have any likelihood of dominical provenance.
I don't think that many scholars regard the sayings attributed to Jesus in these passages to be of any historical value - they are simply far too late and previously unattested to have any likelihood of dominical provenance.
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