Book Overview
From The New York Times best-selling author of The Crimson Petal and the White, Michel Faber's The Fire Gospel is a wickedly funny, acid-tongued, media-savvy picaresque that delves into our sensationalist culture. Theo Griepenkerl, a Canadian linguistics scholar, is sent to Iraq in search of artifacts that have survived the destruction and looting of the war. While visiting a museum in Mosul, he finds nine papyrus scrolls tucked in the belly of a basrelief sculpture: they have been perfectly preserved for more than two thousand years. After smuggling them out of Iraq and translating them from Aramaic, Theo realizes the extent of his career-making find, for he is in possession of the Fifth Gospel, and it offers a shocking and incomparable eyewitness account of Christ's crucifixion and last days on Earth. A hugely entertaining, and by turns shocking story, The Fire Gospel is a smart, stylish, and suspenseful novel.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0802144748
ISBN13:9780802144744
Release Date:January 2010
Publisher:Grove Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"
Customer Reviews
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a major discovery from the first century A.D.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Essential reading for all Christians. Newly translated from the Aramaic scrolls discovered in Mosul in 2006 and dated to 38/40 A.D. The testament of Malchus (not a disciple but a Christian convert and eyewitness to the crucifixion) stands beside the Gospels in shedding light on the events in the final days of our Savior. The translation by Theo Griepenkerl and the intoduction and commentary by Michael Faber are exciting reading. The only reservation I have is the title, this is not a Gospel as we have come to use the term but the account of a man who by his own admission envied the silver coins delivered to Judas for the betrayal of our Lord.
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