Talk:Substitution hypothesis

Local Japanese tradition

I've removed this from the article, since it has been unsourced since its introduction on 9 May 2018, and reliable sources may be hard to find. Some information is found in Shingō,_Aomori#Local_attractions, but all the sources cited there are news reports of local legends. Moreover, this seems not notable enough to put right next to the substitution hypothesis among Gnostics, Mandaeans, and Muslims, for which historical records do exist, which have been studied by modern scholars.

A tradition in the Japanese village of Shingō, Aomori holds that Jesus had a brother named Isukiri who took his place on the cross. According to this tradition, Jesus fled to Japan, married, bore children, and died there.