"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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2020]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2020, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-106 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HA Bible KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
religious fiction
B Bible B Biblical Studies B Popular Culture |
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