średniowiecze: Prester John

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Prester John (Latin: Presbyter Ioannes) was a postulated Christian patriarch, presbyter, and king. Stories popular in Europe in the 12th to the 17th centuries told of a Nestorian patriarch and king who was said to rule over a Christian nation lost amid the pagans and Muslims in the Orient. The accounts were often embellished with various tropes of medieval popular literature, depicting Prester John as a descendant of the Three Magi, ruling a kingdom full of riches, marvels, and strange creatures. At first, Prester John was thought to reside in India. Reports of the Nestorian Christians' evangelistic success there and of Thomas the Apostle's subcontinental travels as documented in works like…

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The Acts of Judas Thomas (or the Twin), the Apostle

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APPENDIX. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ACTS OF THOMAS THE APOSTLE

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Eldad ben Maḥli ha-Dani (Hebrew: אֶלְדָּד בֶּן מַחְלִי הַדָּנִי, lit. 'Eldad son of Mahli the Danite') (fl. c. 851 – c. 900) was a ninth-century Jewish merchant, traveller, and philologist. Though probably originally from South Arabia, he professed to be a citizen of an "independent Jewish state" in East Africa, inhabited by people claiming descent from the lost Tribes of Dan, Asher, Gad, and Naphtali. Eldad visited Babylonia, Kairouan, and Iberia, where he spread his accounts of the Ten Lost Tribes and halakhot which he claimed he had brought from his native country. Eldad's Hebrew narrative Sefer Eldad established his reputation as a philologist whom leading medieval Jewish grammarians an…

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India has one of the oldest continuous Christian traditions in the world dating back to AD 52. Christianity is India's third-largest religion with 28 million adherents, who make up 2.3 percent of the population, according to the 2011 census. Kerala has the largest Christian population in India. Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of India's Christians are found in South India, Goa and Mumbai (Bombay). Christianity is the major religion in parts of Northeast India, specifically in Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya. Christians are also a significant plurality in Manipur. The written records of St Thomas Christians mention that Christianity was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by Thomas the Apos…