Norbert Klatt

Norbert Klatt (24 December 1949 – 1 October 2015)^[1] was a German scholar of Buddhism and Christianity and publisher; he was the founder of Norbert Klatt Verlag, Göttingen.^[2]

Klatt proposed Buddhist influence on some New Testament narratives (1982), particularly the conversion of Kassapa (Mahavagga 1.20.16) on Jesus walking on the water (Mark 6).^[3] From 1986 Klatt made investigations into the Life of Issa forgery of Nicolas Notovitch^[4] expanding his researches to include Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's claims of Jesus in India in 1988. Klatt concluded that the origin of Notovitch's story was "to be sought in Paris rather than India, Tibet or Ladakh," but left open the possibility that Notovitch had genuinely found Tibetan texts relating to Jesus misidentifying Bible portions that Heinrich August Jäschke had translated into Tibetan in 1857–1868, decades before Notovitch's visit to Tibet.^[5]

Works

Books

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - editor of 5 volumes of Blumenbach Correspondence
Literarkritische Beiträge zum Problem christlich-buddhistischer Parallelen - Köln : Brill, 1982
Lebte Jesus in Indien? - Göttingen : Wallstein-Verlag, 1988
Jesu und Buddhas Wasserwandel - Göttingen : Klatt, 1990 (revision of 1982)
Die Bosheit der Sexualität - Göttingen : Klatt, 1991
Der Nachlass von Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden in der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen - Göttingen : Klatt, 1996
Verflucht, versklavt, verketzert Göttingen : Klatt, 1998
Zur Verwendung des Sektenbegriffs in Religion, Politik und Wirtschaft - Göttingen : Klatt, 1999
Die Rivalin Gottes Göttingen : Klatt, 2000
Zur Instrumentalisierung der "Homosexualität" im Alten und Neuen Testament, Göttingen : Klatt, 2006

Articles

N. Klatt, 'Jesus in Indien', in Orientierungen und Berichte 13, 1986 (Evgl. Zentralstelle fur Weltanschauungsfragen).

References

^ "Norbert Klatt : Traueranzeige". Göttinger & Eichsfelder Tageblatt (in German). 7 November 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-12.
^ D-NB
^ Patrick J. Madden Jesus' walking on the sea: an investigation of the origin of the ... Page 20 "N. Klatt also thinks that the story of the conversion of Kassapa (Mahdvagga 1.20.16) has influenced the Gospel narratives. He employs what he calls "the critical-structural method" to compare Christian and ..."
^ Wilhelm Schneemelcher, R McL Wilson New Testament Apocrypha: Gospels and Related Writings 1991- Page 87 "On the personality of Notovitch, cf. N. Klatt, 'Jesus in Indien', in Orientierungen und Berichte 13, 1986 (Evgl. Zentralstelle fur Weltanschauungsfragen). "
^ Mark Bothe Die "Jesus-in-Indien-Legende" - Eine alternative Jesus-Erzählung? 2011 Page 75 "Dies könne, so Klatt, bedeuten, dass Notovitch auf Bibelverse gestoßen sei, die der Herrenhuter Missionar Heinrich August Jäschke zuvor von 1857–1868 ins Tibetische übersetzt hatte.238 Die Verbindung dieser beiden JiIL Varianten lässt .."

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[1] "Norbert Klatt : Traueranzeige". Göttinger & Eichsfelder Tageblatt (in German). 7 November 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-12.

[2] D-NB

[3] Patrick J. Madden Jesus' walking on the sea: an investigation of the origin of the ... Page 20 "N. Klatt also thinks that the story of the conversion of Kassapa (Mahdvagga 1.20.16) has influenced the Gospel narratives. He employs what he calls "the critical-structural method" to compare Christian and ..."

[4] Wilhelm Schneemelcher, R McL Wilson New Testament Apocrypha: Gospels and Related Writings 1991- Page 87 "On the personality of Notovitch, cf. N. Klatt, 'Jesus in Indien', in Orientierungen und Berichte 13, 1986 (Evgl. Zentralstelle fur Weltanschauungsfragen). "

[5] Mark Bothe Die "Jesus-in-Indien-Legende" - Eine alternative Jesus-Erzählung? 2011 Page 75 "Dies könne, so Klatt, bedeuten, dass Notovitch auf Bibelverse gestoßen sei, die der Herrenhuter Missionar Heinrich August Jäschke zuvor von 1857–1868 ins Tibetische übersetzt hatte.238 Die Verbindung dieser beiden JiIL Varianten lässt .."

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