The Issa tale that will not die : Nicolas Notovitch and his fraudulent gospel / H. Louis Fader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fader, H. Louis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Notovitch, Nicolas, 1858- Vie inconnue.

Notovitch, Nicolas.

Jesus Christ--Apocryphal and legendary literature.

Jesus Christ.

Notovitch, Nicolas, 1858---Travel.

Notovitch, Nicolas, 1858-.

Travel.

Genre:

Apocryphal and legendary literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 238 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : University Press of America, [2003]

Contents:

1 The Notovitch "Gospel" and Its Persistent Influence 1

2 Early "On-Site" Investigators 27

(a) Shah, Douglas and Filippi

(b) The Notion of "Eastern Diplomacy"

3 Early and Later Scholarly Inquiry Totally Discredits the Notovitch Claims 45

I. The Russian's Travel Accounts: Full of Falsehood

II. The Published Issa Text Itself: Proven a Fraud

4 The Cultural Climate That Gave Rise to the Notovitch Fraud 83

(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 Text

(d) Judaism and Notovitch's Literary Invention

(e) The European Women's Movement and the Issa Life

(f) Ladakh and the Issa Tale

5 The Astonishing Case of Holger Kersten 103

6 A Proper Biblical Exegesis Belies the Theory of Jesus' Missing Years 123

(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

7 The Genius of the Christian Message 149

A. Text: The Life of Saint Issa, Best of the Sons of Men 157

B. The Notovitch Brothers: a Brief Portrait 179

C. Important Discrepancies between the Issa Text and the Canonical Scriptures 187

D. Scripture Passages 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761826572

OCLC:

54432588