Holger Kersten
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Holger Kersten (* 1951) Is a German author of several books on Jesus of
Nazareth has written. He studied since 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau Religious
Education and was in the 1980s worked as a religion teacher at a vocational
school in South Baden. His theses are from the historical Jesus research
ignored or dismissed as untenable.[1]
Contents[Hide]
1 Jesus in India
1.1 John's statements
2.1 Turin Shroud
1.3 These precursors of India
4.1 Scientific criticism
2 More Actions Kerstens
3 Individual documents
4 Works
5 References
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Jesus in India [Edit]
Kersten took before 1980 Elmar R. Gruber the view that Jesus had his
Crucifixion had survived, then to Cashmere moved and not in Palestine, Died,
but after the age of 100 years in northern India and Srinagar been buried. 1981
with his book Jesus in India He took this view from closer and more connected
to an individual theses by his own account "complete chain of evidence":
Jesus is taking Pontius Pilate been executed, but could not have died on the
cross in Jerusalem.
Jesus had after his recovery after India have migrated, where for centuries a
Jewish minority - the descendants of since the fall of the Northern Kingdom of
Israel lost "10 lost tribes" (Beni Israelhave) lived -.
Jesus had also worked there as an itinerant preacher and gained by healing
activity and teaching reputation.
His grave is identical with the still used as a temple house of the grave Yuz
Asaf (A Bodhisattva). This Kersten pointed to notches on the grave stone that
will remind Kreuzigungswundmale on hands and feet. This reflects the belief of
the Islamic Ahmadiyya.
John's statements [Edit]
For its chain of evidence is Kersten as his predecessor was soon applied to
individual verses of Jesus' crucifixion and burial, in the New Testament only
the The Gospel of John handed down. After Jn 19.31-37 EU broke with the Roman
soldiers crucified Jesus feet. This was the Roman custom, to shorten the agony
of the Hanged. Since Jesus was dead already, they would have done so not with
him, but checked only with a spear his death. This blood and water were from
his "side" (Greek pleura) Flowed (v. 32ff).
Kersten interpreted these data as historical facts and concluded: The common is
an agony for several days at a crucifixion. As blood flow is impossible with a
dead, a court ruling have Jesus lived until then. That the soldiers of Jesus
legs were not broken, had saved his life.
New Testament scholars point out that the Gospel of Jesus true here as the
Passover will announce, in accordance with the predictions of the Scripture
died (v. 36). The fatal wound should convince the doubting Thomas, that the
risen Jesus was really the same as the previously crucified, therefore, affirm
his death (Jn 20.27 EU).[2]
After Jn 19.39-42 EU brought a friend of Jesus Pharisee Nicodemus 100 pounds
Myrrh and Aloe vera. This Salbengenisch he had and the councilor Joseph of
Arimathea Sheets soaked into which they had wrapped Jesus' body. Then they laid
him in an unused rock grave. This approach was in line with Jewish custom of
the funeral care.
Kersten interpreted these data as secret Johannine special treatment trial: It
had to Medicinal herbs traded. Refer to the set already. In addition, the
embalming of corpses in Palestinian Jews at that time was unusual and frowned
upon. Since Jesus is in no way been a Hellenized Jew, it must have had a
different reason.
That this for distinguished members of the Sanhedrin Jerusalem Pharisees had
not true, the Greek were probably formed, not considered Kersten. Nicodemus was
for him a member of the Essenes: A former desert sect, which is mentioned
nowhere in the New Testament.
Turin Shroud [Edit]
In a second step moved Kersten this information to the Shroud of Turin. Traces
it to refer to residues from medicinal herbs. To support this, embalmed Kersten
and Gruber, a subject with an emulsion of oil, aloe and myrrh. They rated the
resulting imprint of the cloth as the reproduction of some properties of the
Turin Shroud. This way to clear traces of such treatment. Kersten did not doubt
that the Turin Shroud depicts Jesus and the NT referred to in several body
tissues was identical.
These precursors of India [Edit]
The thesis of an India-or TibetResidence-based Jesus before or after his
crucifixion on popular travelogues of the 19th Century and launched ever since
new. The thesis is in the New Age popular because they have a Syncretism
represents the religious motives of the Gnosticism of Apparent death with
elements of the Redeemer Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam connect attempts. By
2006, published 18 books and six world to film documentaries, and some
newspaper articles, including:[3]
La Bible dans l'Inde. Vie de Jezeus Christna (1875) by Louis Jacolliot. This
French district judge gave after his return from India Indologist from original
and wanted Jesus quotes, rules and miracle stories have discovered in ancient
religious writings of India to prove Jesus should stay there. But in 1888, had
distinguished Indian scholars after him, that he does not Sanskrit dominated
and had falsified quotes.
La vie inconnue de Jésus-Christ ("The gap in the life of Jesus, 1894) by
Nikolai Notowitsch. This Russian journalist claimed that he had been in the
monastery Hemis in Ladakh Ancient writings show, in which Jesus' arrival and
stay in Tibet between his 12th and 30 Age was mentioned. This refuted the
indologist Friedrich Max Müller and the English historian John Archibald
Douglas were 1894 and 1895: Notowitsch was neither in nor other Hemis
monasteries of the region, and the Buddhists there - which did not had bound
books - had heard only through the encounter with European missionaries of
Jesus.
Redemption of Jesus Christ and Again deceit to the rescue of Christianity
(1930) by Mathilde Ludendorff. These co-founder of a sect of the fascist
Ariosophy Jacolliot invoked to provide a "Aryan"To claim descent of Jesus.
The tomb of Jesus Christ of India (1939) JD Shams, Then Imam the London Mosque.
He referred to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
Jesus did not die on the cross (1957) Kurt Berna. This journalist with many
pseudonyms such as "John Naber," or "John Rebane called" in turn led to
Jacolliot and 1984, a "research" in Kashmir. This also visited the Islam
Professor Fida Muhammad Hassnain in Srinagar, the attempts to substantiate the
belief of the Ahmadiyya pseudoscientific. In the magazine reported Bunte in the
article Where Jesus really died?[4]
Jesus died in India (1973), an article in the magazine Star[5]. It Hassnain has
been cited as authority.
Jesus died in Kashmir? The secret of his life and work in India (1973)
Siegfried Obermeier.
Jesus died in Kashmir (1976) by Andreas Faber-Kaiser. He also appealed to JD
Shams and Hassnain.
Travel to Kiribati (1981) Erich von Daniken. He personally interviewed Hassnain
and quoted him as saying: "The chain of evidence is complete. It may take
before any court. "(P. 219)
1983 Kersten's book finally appeared Jesus lived in India. He also relied on
the fact Hassnain and claimed this as an "unbroken" chain of evidence for
Jesus' life in India.
Scientific criticism [Edit]
Published in 1985, the German Indologist and Tibetologist Dr. Günter Grönbold a
comprehensive scientific investigation of the India theses: Jesus in India -
The end of a legend (Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1985). He attributed the arguments of
the authors mentioned a few constantly repeated speculation and dismissed them
for inconsistencies, dependencies and errors. Kersten also shall perform
Notowitschs book as a supposedly reliable report, even though it had been
proved already in 1894 as a forgery. Kersten also concealed that Notowitsch
Jesus' journey to Tibet, not after, but had laid before his crucifixion, and
that the return of the Hassnain Messiah for 21 had angekündet March 1983
(before publication of his book). The name Yuz Asaf, Which identified many of
these authors with the name of Jesus, told from a Grönbold Islamicized version
of the Buddhist concept of bodhisattva.[6]
More Actions Kerstens [Edit]
1984 Kersten wants to have its own information to the Governor of Kashmir,
Farooq Abdullah persuaded to leave open the grave of Yuz Asaf to find more
evidence for its identity with Jesus. The day before the scheduled opening,
however, violent political clashes had broken out. Order not to exacerbate the
Srinagar police chief Abdullah had not advised to open the grave.
2005 Kersten undertook an expedition to eastern Anatolia to the mountain Nemrut
Dağı and Arsameia. There, he wants the birth of the historic cave Mithras
discovered and its exact date of birth - 29 have determined in July of the year
7 BC -. For this he was referring to the so-called lion horoscope and an
artificial shaft that make predictable by the incidence of sunlight, the exact
birth date.
2006 Kersten traveled to Gandhara in Kashmir Taxila in Pakistan and Harwan in
Srinagar, to inter alia to look again for a final resting place of Christ.
Individual documents [Edit]
↑ e.g. Gerald O'Collins, Daniel Kendall: Focus on Jesus, Essays in Christology
and soteriology, Gracewing 1996, p. 169 Robert E. Van Voorst: Jesus outside the
New Testament: an introduction to the ancient evidence, Eerdmans 2000, p. 79
Reinhard Meier field, Hermann Spieckermann: The Bible, creation - message -
response, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 164 Paul Rhodes, James K. Beilby:
The quest for the Historical Jesus. An Introduction, In: This. (Eds.): The
Historical Jesus: Five Views, InterVarsity, 2009, 10th
↑ Gerd Theissen, Annette Merz: The Historical Jesus, 1998 S., 153
↑ see Dr. Tahir Ijaz and Ijaz Qamar Ph.D.: Jesus in India: A Review of the
World Literature (1899-1999) (Establish Jesus-in-India-literature The Muslim
Sunrise - A Journal of the Islamic Renaissance in America)
↑ Issue 47/1984
↑ Issue 16/1973
↑ Armin Risi: Jesus went to India? An examination of the sources and motives of
this theory
Works [Edit]
Jesus lived in India - his secret life before and after the crucifixion.
Ullstein-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-5483-5490-4, (First edition Droemer Knaur,
Munich 1983, ISBN 3-426-03712-2).
The Jesus Conspiracy: The Truth about the Shroud of Turin. Heyne Verlag, Munich
1997, ISBN 3-453-12307-7.
The original Jesus - The Buddhist Sources of Early Christianity. Langen-Müller
Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7844-2504-6.
Jesus did not die on the cross - The Embassy of the Turin Shroud. Langen-Müller
Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7844-2688-3, (With Elmar R. Gruber).
