Religion: Eyewitness Mark?

Wheeler's eyes were shining. "[It's] the greatest story of our time, the one that will dazzle the entire Christian world, the one that will cause a rebirth in religion and a revival of faith. The papyri that were found—that we now possess—are the lost source of the Synoptic Gospels, the so-called Q document, a fifth but actually the first and original Gospel—the Gospel According to James."

—The Word, by Irving Wallace

It does not quite happen that way in real life, of course. Even in Wallace's overblown novel, the "Gospel According to James" turns out...

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