How Did Apostles Die? death of Bartholmew in India (For Kanwal)

kanwal kanwal@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 20:21:17 +0530 (00918247877, 006f01be511a$8bfbff20$b56d36ca@kanwal.vsnl.net.in) 

Jews and christians came to India(Kerala) in early 1st century Ad and had
peaceful existence since then.My point is that crucification has never been
mentioned in any historic or other records(to the best of my knowledge).
Punjab is land locked area and there is no sea or port.However,Punjab was
connected with Indus valley civilisation  and trade route through land and
rivers.
kanwal
-----Original Message-----
From: Achilles <achillesz@usa.net>
To: errancy@infidels.org <errancy@infidels.org>
Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: How Did Apostles Die? death of Bartholmew in India (For Kanwal)


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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