Detailed view for the Book: Fire Gospel, The

Title:

Fire Gospel, The
 

Authors:

Genres:

Folklore & Mythology
Mystery

Series:

Myths, The

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 2008-11-06 Canongate  

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Blurb: 
Theo Griepenkerl is a modest academic with an Olympian ego. When he visits a looted museum in Iraq, looking for treasures he can ship back to Canada, he finds nine papyrus scrolls that have lain hidden for two thousand years. Once translated from Aramaic, these prove to be a fifth Gospel, written by an eye-witness of Jesus Christ's last days. But when Theo decides to share this sensational discovery with the world, he fails to imagine the impact the new Gospel will have on Christians, Arabs, homicidal maniacs and Amazon customers. Like Prometheus's gift of fire, it has incendiary consequences.