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A lost past, A Hidden Gospel, A Monumental Discovery
Riverhead
July 2006
On Sale: July 20, 2006
Featuring: Gemma Bastian
384 pages
ISBN: 159448919X
EAN: 9781594489198
Hardcover
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Set in Cairo during the tumultuous aftermath of World War
II, Tucker Malarkey's Resurrection draws on the actual
events surrounding the findings of the lost gospels at Nag
Hammadi, Egypt. Suppressed by the Church Fathers, who
elected to include only four gospels in the New Testament
canon, these sacred texts were destroyed in ancient times by
Church mandate, and their subsequent accidental rediscovery
in the 1940s was fraught with danger. Around these
remarkable events, Malarkey has crafted a suspenseful and
eye-opening tale of love, war, and murder. When Gemma Bastian's father, a renowned British
archeologist, suddenly passes away in Egypt, she journeys
from postwar London to Cairo to bury his ashes. Yet her
investigation into his last project-an attempt to recover
and make public the lost Gnostic Gospels-raises troubling
questions about his death. What unfolds is a tantalizing but
little-known story about one of the most important and
controversial finds of the past century, involving, at its
center, the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Drawing on the material that Elaine Pagels presented in her
bestseller The Gnostic Gospels, Resurrection grapples with
the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of
those ancient texts, which call into question the founding
of Christianity and the role of women in Church history.
Here is a story of resurrection in its many forms: of a dead
father, of a love between a man and a woman, of a world
ravaged by war, of a faith that might have been.
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