"This Piece of Parchment Will Shake the World": The Mystery of Mar Saba and the Evangelical Prototype of a Secular Fiction Genre

The 1940 evangelical novel The Mystery of Mar Saba by James H. Hunter shares with a later, secular genre of novels I call gospel thrillers a common plot (the discovery of a new gospel from the first century and a race to prove or disprove its authenticity) but also common anxieties about biblical au...

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Main Author: Jacobs, Andrew S. 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2020]
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2020, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-106
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
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KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
Further subjects:B religious fiction
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B Biblical Studies
B Popular Culture
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