Mar Saba Codex
Published on 30. September 2011
673 pages
978-1-78099-069-9 (ISBN)
Description
While attending a Catholic conference in the US to boost the faith in difficult times, Australian political journalist and ex seminarian Jack Duggan is made aware of a controversial codex written by a 4th century Syrian bishop. Only photographs of the codex are available, the original having gone missing soon after its discovery at the Palestinian monastery of Mar Saba. Within a few pages we are engaged in Duggan's struggle with his religious past, a past that furnished him with the expertise to translate the codex, but left him antagonistic to all things religious. From there we are carried into the thick of a story that reveals, step by step, what this ancient codex contains, and it contains not a few historical surprises. At once a kind of thriller, a romance and a slice of life, The Mar Saba Codex is a big story with many an unexpected twist that traverses the globe from Sydney to San Francisco, and from New York to Rome, reaching its grand climax in the old walled city of Jerusalem where equally belligerent forces strive for dominance.
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By Douglas Lockhart
Content
- Intro
- Part One Give the Dog a Bone
- 1 Shades of Columbo
- 2 Mother's Milk
- 3 The Windle Woman
- 4 Eating Glass
- 5 War in Heaven
- 6 This is America
- 7 Like a dog after a bone
- 8 Le Milieu Divin
- 9 The Naive Child
- Part Two A Time of Testing
- 10 Axis Mundi
- 11 Metamorphosis
- 12 The deep end
- 13 The Winds of Necessary Change
- 14 A Blow from Within
- 15 Distant drums
- 16 Holly go-lightly
- 17 Life's a Bitch
- 18 Water off a Duck's Back
- 19 A Kind of Madness
- 20 An Honest Man
- 21 Roma
- 22 Full Circle
- Part Three The storm Breaks
- 23 Lull Before the Storm
- 24 Cat Among the Pigeons
- 25 Shot Through With Arrows
- 26 Dissipation
- 27 Birds of a Feather
- 28 Half a Story
- 29 The Imaginings of Men
- 30 More than a Hiccup
- 31 Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem
- 32 The Land of Damascus
- 33 The Eye of the Storm
- 34 Beneditti's Cabal
- 35 A Modicum of Dignity
- 36 Fighting Fire with Fire
- Part Four Into the Lion's Den
- 37 A Higher Authority
- 38 Complicated Times
- 39 Freedom
- 40 Crossroads
- 41 Why?
- 42 Blitz
- 43 Majnoon
- 44 Lies and Deceit
- 45 Tea and cake
- 46 A Work in Progress
