How Did Apostles Die? death of Bartholmew in India (For Kanwal)
Achilles achillesz@usa.net
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:29:37 -0500 (00918188977, 22275846126815@unifour.com)
On 4 Feb 99, at 20:38, kanwal wrote:
> I was amused to read that Bartholmew was flayed alive and crucified in
> India.
> Could you pin point the place where above incident happened?This is
> necessary because the term India has never been used in earlier times.The
> map of India,Hindustan or bharat had been changing over the last 3000years.
> The concept of crucification is alien to Indian culture.Could any body throw
> light on above?
> kanwal
I certainly cannot pinpoint where this was supposed to have happened. I doubt
it is more than a legend. AFAIK "India" at that time and place was used to
refer to any south asian location further east than persia, and particularly to
the Punjab region (Alexanders India,) a thriving seaport the Romans traded at
called Barygaza (now Broach,) and the Malabar Coast (Kerala.) There were
regularly travelled trade routes between the mediterranean world and these
areas in the first century, and buddhist monks made it as far west as
Alexandria Egypt at that time as well. There was also a sect of eastern
Christians, known as St. Thomas Christians, which flourished in isolation from
the western Church for centuries in southern India, until they came into
contact again with the western (now Roman) Church (through their Portuguese
agents.)
If you are interested in the links between early Christianity and India, I
would think you would find this page very interesting.
http://members.aol.com/didymus5/toc.html
Regards,
/Achilles achillesz@usa.net
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