The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple: Fourth Revised Edition - Ishwar Sharan
Updated 2019 Fourth Edition of The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple is available in print from Voice of India and Amazon › Pages 450 › Price Rs 595 › ISBN 978-93-85485-20-6. Read the book free on-line at Google Books . Review Merchant Thomas to Saint Thomas - Sandhya Jain "The claim that Christianity came to India before it went to Europe is a ploy to make it a sort of native Indian religion, even if it came from West Asia. The fable's origin is a Gnostic Syrian romance, the Acts of Thomas , written by poet Bardesanes at Edessa around 201 CE. The text never mentions or describes the Indian sub-continent, but says the apostle went from Palestine eastwards to a desert-like country where people are ‘Mazdei’ (Zoroastrian) and have Persian names. The term India in the Acts of Thomas is a synonym for Asia." - Sandhya Jain As Christian evangelists intensify efforts to bring India under their sway, their brethren in the south are t...