{"id":1159,"date":"2010-07-21T17:18:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T17:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2010\/07\/our-new-thriller--papias-and-the-mysterious-menorah.html"},"modified":"2010-07-21T17:18:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T17:18:51","slug":"our-new-thriller-papias-and-the-mysterious-menorah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/07\/our-new-thriller-papias-and-the-mysterious-menorah.html","title":{"rendered":"Our New Thriller&#8212; Papias and the Mysterious Menorah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/papias.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"papias.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/papias-thumb-400x400-16418.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>The third archaeological thriller in the Art West series (of seven) has just come out, and is available from Amazon, and even more cheaply from www.wipfandstock.com.&nbsp; I am challenging you fiction hounds out there to get a copy and put up a review on Amazon.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In this episode in the series we learn about discoveries at Hierapolis in Turkey at Papias&#8217; House, including the earliest testimonies about the origins of our canonical Gospels.&nbsp; Meanwhile back in Jerusalem a first century menorah is discovered, complete with a &#8216;demon&#8217; papyrus rolled up inside it.&nbsp; Art West and his friends Grace Levine (who gets married in this episode) and Kahlil el Said are caught up in a vortex of intrigue, murder most foul, mystery and discovery. And in the middle of all the chaos&#8212;- Art West falls in love with a Turkish archaeologist.&nbsp; There is something in this novel for everyone&#8230;. and topping it all off,&nbsp; it includes pictures of the sites and objects of attention in the novel.&nbsp; What more could you want? &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third archaeological thriller in the Art West series (of seven) has just come out, and is available from Amazon, and even more cheaply from www.wipfandstock.com.&nbsp; I am challenging you fiction hounds out there to get a copy and put up a review on Amazon.&nbsp; In this episode in the series we learn about discoveries&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Our New Thriller- Papias and the Mysterious Menorah - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/07\/our-new-thriller-papias-and-the-mysterious-menorah.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our New Thriller- Papias and the Mysterious Menorah - The Bible and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The third archaeological thriller in the Art West series (of seven) has just come out, and is available from Amazon, and even more cheaply from www.wipfandstock.com.&nbsp; 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