An Armenian scholar says he did:
Dr Abraham Terian, lately a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities, points to an extraordinary manuscript as his source.
He notes that in the Armenian Gospel of the Infancy, translated into Armenian in the 6th century from a much older lost Syriac original, a passage tells of Jesus playing what may well be the precursor of cricket, with a club and ball.
Dr. Terian says there is good rationale to suppose that games comparable to cricket were played in the Middle East long before it was played in England. For this reason, he says Jesus did play cricket.
5 comments:
very unique post Ottayan :)
Bisht,
Thanks for the compliment. This blog aims to be different from others. :)
In that sense, you have a unique blog too.
I have always enjoyed your cartoons, and your recent one on Tendulkars return to the ODI team says it all.
Despite my limited knowledge of Hindi, I enjoyed it.
Soon there will be a research on sai baba being a spinner in his past life with his hand googlies. What's your take on this jesus-cricket thing otts?
BTW Bisht... you have a nice site... But i cant seem to be able to post a comment... can't find the link... have you disabled comments?
I think Jesus played hockey. :)
Post a Comment