The Life of Saint Issa

ChristianityDisputed / Needs VerificationClaimed Tibetan source; published in French, represented here in English translation

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Scanned cover of Notovitch's 'The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ' (1916 printing), the public-domain source of the Life of Saint Issa text.

The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ (Notovitch), 1916 Indo-American Book Co. printing — cover/title scan

Cover/title scan of the 1916 Indo-American Book Co. (Chicago) printing of Nicolas Notovitch's The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ — the English edition containing The Life of Saint Issa.

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1916 [c1894] - Call number nrlf_ucb:GLAD-247999; OCLC 10474148; ark:/13960/t2k64f09x

University of California Libraries (digitized by the Internet Archive)

Public domain (NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT, US; original notice dated 1894)

The Life of Saint Issa Lost Years of Jesus

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The Life of Saint Issa I

Connelly / Landsberg English edition (1916) - English

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The Life of Saint Issa I

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Tradition: Christianity
Category: Disputed Christian Apocrypha
Claimed author: Claimed Tibetan Buddhist manuscript reported by Nicolas Notovitch
Likely origin: Nicolas Notovitch claim, translated by J. H. Connelly and L. Landsberg
Date: Published 1894; English edition represented by a 1916 public-domain printing
Language: Claimed Tibetan source; published in French, represented here in English translation
Manuscripts: No verified manuscript witness is available in the archive; the claim has been heavily disputed since publication.
Accepted by: Disputed modern lost-years claim; not accepted scripture

A disputed lost-years text claiming that Issa, identified with Jesus, traveled through India, Nepal, and surrounding regions before returning to Israel.

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Disputed / Needs Verification

Use as a record of Notovitch's nineteenth-century claim, not as early evidence for Jesus' biography. The alleged Hemis manuscript remains unverified.

Source & license

License: Public domain via Project Gutenberg ebook 29288.
Edition: Connelly / Landsberg English edition (1916) · J. H. Connelly and L. Landsberg
Display rights: Public domain
Repository: Project Gutenberg

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