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"This Piece of Parchment Will Shake the World": The Mystery of Mar Saba and the Evangelical Prototype of a Secular Fiction Genre
- Author(s):
- Andrew Jacobs (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- Ancient Jew Review
- Subject(s):
- Popular culture, Evangelicalism--Study and teaching, Fiction, Bible. Gospels
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Biblical studies, Evangelical studies, Novels, Gospels
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/exr3-5281
- Abstract:
- 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 authority mapped onto geopolitical, theological, and personal registers. I triangulate these themes with the modern professional study of the Bible, which has also produced a vulnerable yet authoritative biblical text and which has, in surprising fashion, resurrected for its own purposes The Mystery of Mar Saba.
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- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. Date:
- 2020-3-28
- Journal:
- Christianity & Literature
- Volume:
- 69
- Issue:
- 1
- Page Range:
- 91 - 106
- ISSN:
- 0148-3331
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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"This Piece of Parchment Will Shake the World": The Mystery of Mar Saba and the Evangelical Prototype of a Secular Fiction Genre