Last essays by the Right Hon. Professor F. Max Müller, K.M. Late Foreign Member of the French Institute. Second series Essays on the science of religion

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8vo. pp. vi, 375, [1]. Includes the essay “The alleged sojourn of Christ in India” from 1894, in which Müller demolished Nicolas Notovitch’s ‘Issa tale.’ In La Vie inconnue de Jésus-Christ (see Bib# 9736972/Fr# 1488 in this collection for the final and revised edition), the Crimean adventurer Notovitch (1858-1916) attempted to fill in Jesus’s ‘missing years’ by claiming that at age thirteen Christ visited India, where he was known as ‘the Issa.’ Notovitch claimed to have based his work on a Tibetan manuscript. The ‘Issa tale’ has remained unshakeably popular, and has recently been restudied by H. Louis Fader (The Issa Tale that Will not Die. Lanham, 2003, Bib# 4103101/Fr# 1490). Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.