"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 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 o... Mehr ...
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| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
| Schlagwörter: | 1071344:Popular culture:topical / 917027:Evangelicalism--Study and teaching:topical / 923709:Fiction:topical / 1808065:Bible. Gospels:title |
| Sprache: | unknown |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27643073 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.17613/exr3-5281 |
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.