About George M. Lamsa and Rocco Errico

[Christina]

I can already see it now: the good generous monk invites the poor desert dwelling Mohammed for a meal in his humble cell. A little wine here, a little wine there, the monk says to Mohammed that he's a "Bright boy" perhaps he can be tutored and brought into the order away from the Meccan wasteland. They exchange a few Tanakh stories on the prophets... Mohammed mistakes and misunderstands everything, especially after the horrible cave episodes where HaSatan poses as Gabriel, and he declares himself the "Last Prophet"- bigger, better then them all put together. I don't blame the monk, I doubt he was a heretic.

I'm finding it it hard to get objective accounts of this Bahira guy. Are there only Islamic records of this monk (which as Paul said are exagerated) or does the CoE have their own sources regarding Bahira, akhi Paul?

This is what I found about Bahira & "Netoriansism" from a popular Christian apologetic site "Answering Islam":

http://answering-islam.org.uk/Index/B/bahira.html
http://answering-islam.org.uk/Index/N/nestorians.html

the Islamic version of Bahira:

http://www.amaana.org/ISWEB/bahira.html

I also read in Mark A. Gabriel's book "Islam and the Jews: The Unfinished Battle" that this Bahira supposedly saw a mark on (the 12 yr old) Muhammad's shoulder and told his uncle Abu Talib, that the mark is the seal of prophethood, and that he must make sure that the Jews don't find out otherwise they'll kill the boy (Muhammad). Of course this is from the hadiths, which as I said before are at best subjective, and at worst purposefully deceitful & false.