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ARAMAIC WATCH: Ariel Sabar's book My Father's...

... here . Two other books are reviewed by Nick Owchar, again in the LA Times . The first, by Alan Jacobs, When Jesus Lived in India: The Quest for the Aquarian Gospel: The mystery of the Missing Years , supports the baseless notion that Jesus traveled to India in his lifetime. Baseless not because it couldn't have happened – Jesus' contemporary, the philosopher Apollonius of Tyana,...

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Google Plays Librarian

... a run of one costs the same as doing a run of 10,000 such exchanges suddenly become profitable. Alan Jacobs has mixed feelings .

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Beyond the Wild Wood

... in the Willows many times, but I could never again read it for the first time. Read the rest of Alan Jacobs's First Things article on two new editions here . [Far and away, my favorite children's book. In fact, I've patterned my life after Mr. Toad.]