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2 - Birth of a Genre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Andrew S. Jacobs
Affiliation:
Harvard Divinity School, Massachusetts
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Birth of a Genre: “Conspiracy theory” rises steeply during the Cold War in the United States, including conspiratorial thinking about the Bible. A new genre, “Gospel Thrillers,” emerges at the same time and a close reading of the first Gospel Thriller, The Q Document (1964), shows how this conspiratorial atmosphere reshapes the personal, theological, and political stakes examined in Chapter 1 of this book.

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Gospel Thrillers
Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible
, pp. 42 - 77
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Birth of a Genre
  • Andrew S. Jacobs, Harvard Divinity School, Massachusetts
  • Book: Gospel Thrillers
  • Online publication: 09 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384605.004
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  • Birth of a Genre
  • Andrew S. Jacobs, Harvard Divinity School, Massachusetts
  • Book: Gospel Thrillers
  • Online publication: 09 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384605.004
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  • Birth of a Genre
  • Andrew S. Jacobs, Harvard Divinity School, Massachusetts
  • Book: Gospel Thrillers
  • Online publication: 09 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384605.004
Available formats
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