Jesus Grew Up Four Miles From a Roman City. Everyone Assumes He Never Left.
Eighteen years unaccounted for, a harbor three days' walk away, and grain ships to Alexandria that never stopped running.
In 1894, a Russian journalist announced he found Jesus in Tibet.
His name was Nicolas Notovitch. He published a book claiming Jesus of Nazareth spent his unknown years in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas, and said he had seen the manuscripts himself. Scholars took the whole thing apart inside of a few years. Notovitch is a footnote now.
But people wa…
