 Historian Jerry H. Bentley (1993) notes "the possibility that Buddhism influenced the early development of Christianity" and that scholars "have drawn attention to many parallels concerning the births, lives, doctrines, and deaths of the Buddha and Jesus".In 1894, the book "The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ" by Nicolas Notovitch introduced the idea that an adult Jesus traveled to India and was influenced by Buddhism before starting his ministry in Galilee.The book was widely disseminated and became the basis of other theories.