Unknown Life of Jesus Christ New Edition 2009 Publication

Author(s): Nicholas Notovitch, Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: World Jain Confederation

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men Summary that Jesus would, by his great popularity, be able to re-establish the Kingdom of Israel and expel those who had conquered it.
Finally communications just as incoherent came to us about the teachings of Jesus among the Guebres and other heathens. These reports seem to have been brought in the first year that followed the death of Jesus in whom they took an interest still greater.
One of the accounts given by a merchant speaks of the origin of Jesus and his family; another relates the expulsion of his partisans and the persecutions which they endured.
It is only at the end of the second volume that we find the first categorical affirmation of the chronicler where he says that Issa is blessed by God and that he is the best of all men, that he is the one in whom the great Brahma had chosen to incarnate His spirit which is separated from the Supreme Being at a period fixed by fate.
After having said that Issa descended from poor parents of Israelite origin, the chronicler digresses a little with the intention of explaining, according to old narrations, who the sons of Israel were. I have arranged all the fragments concerning the life of Issa in chronological order, and I have tried to give them the character of unity which they totally lacked.
I leave to scholars, philosophers and theologians the task of searching for the causes of the contradictions that may be found between this version of the life of Issa which I deliver to the public and the accounts of the Evangelists, but I believe no one will hesitate to agree with me that the version which I present to the public recorded three or four years after the death of Jesus, according to the statement of eye-witnesses and contemporaries, is more likely to be authentic than the accounts of the Evangelists who wrote at different times and so long after the actual occurrence
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