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Book review: The Psalter

January 23, 2013May 27, 2014

by Galen Watson

★★★★★

Hey, this is a fun one!

Let’s start with the basics. A psalter doesn’t psing psongs door-to-door, nor does it dispense psalt and pepper. A psalter is a devotional book of psalms.

This particular psalter is over 1,000 years old. Nay, nearly 2,000 years old, for in the ninth century, it was written over the words of a first-century heretical gospel … a copy of the Book of Thomas the Contender from the Ebionites … as a means of secretly preserving the words of an original apostle. The story takes place half in the ninth century and half in the twenty-first century, when the original gospel is finally restored. It’s a thriller that escalates in both story lines to an unexpected finish.

This is a Da Vinci Code twin, complete with a Vatican setting and a few jabs at the Church, but without the sensationalism. The conversation is well-written; it draws you into the era. It’s fiction, but well-researched and plausible beneath the story-telling surface.

Definitely recommended.

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Comments (2)

  1. Kathy says:
    January 24, 2013 at 8:14 pm

    I totally agree with you DD …. and I know the author personally!

    1. Lee Harmon says:
      January 24, 2013 at 9:13 pm

      Get his autograph NOW.

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