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(b) The Odes of Solomon, This Solomon is not King Solomon but the author of 42 songs composed in Syriac. These are hymns celebrated among the early Christians of Edessa and sung by them at their congregations. In some of these. Jesus Christ himself addresses the World. Skarin states:If you have wondered, as I used to, what writings of. Jesus would have been like had he left a written message, you should rejoice as I have rejoiced in the Odes of Solomon. (Annalff Skarin, “Ye are Gods" Philosophical Library, New. York, p. 217). (c) A Syriac Song of the Pearl consisting of 105 verses. . This song, full of metaphors consists of three figures, the. Father, the King of Kings, the Mother, the Queen of the. East, and the Brother "the next in rank" on the heights of. WARKAN (means elevated place). . In 1969 was published the exciting book called the Crucible of Christianity (edited by Prof. Arnold Toynbee). In this book it is stated that these three early documents belong to the first century A. D. . We will have occasion later to point out that according to these documents Jesus Christ was delivered from the cross and having found this deliverance he gathered his followers and settled in a land resembling PARADISE. . It is surprising that in the 2nd century in the West the Hebrew Gospel was not known. . And yet in India, in the North West to be precise, the Hebrew Gospel was known. We have a philosopher and Christian scholar of Alexandria, Pantaenus, who lived in the middle of the 2nd century A. D. who says that in the course of his travels in. India he came across the Hebrew Gospel. In fact according to. Jerome (A. D. 346-420) he brought back one copy of the Hebrew. Gospel from India to Alexandria. Nothing, however, is known of this manuscript. May be it was destroyed by the Church. The following quotation from the Crucible of Christianity is full of significance:―. The earliest documents we have on Edessan Christianity -namely the Gospel of Thomas, the song of the Pearl contained in the Acts of Thomas, and the Odes of Solomon― go back, in part, to the end of the 1st century and display the characteristic features of Judeo Christianity. -Beyond. Edessa, Christianity penetrated into Adiabne, where there 132