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Review: Jesus Lived In India

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Jesus Lived In India by Holger Kersten My rating: 4 of 5 stars On April 27, 2017, I finally finished reading the book “Jesus Lived in India; His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion” by Holger Kersten. I remember thinking that the plotlines in the book seemed meandering and incoherent. I could not tell why the author transitioned from one section to the next. It seems desultory and put together by random. The linguistic research felt questionable as the author seemed to make fantastical leaps in connecting names together but I am not an expert in the languages and fields that he researched even though I am a linguist myself. With that said, I found the historical sections fascinating and it held my attention very well. At the beginning of the book, I learned that there were two types of Biblical voices in the New Testament, which were that of Paul and Jesus. Paul’s voice is the one that preaches that all that sinners need to do is accept Jesus into their he...