Return (Matt Turner Series Book 3) - Plot & Excerpts
Their very presence in the Library, in the elders’ eyes, bestowed undue legitimacy to their adherents. The fact that precious hours were spent translating such things, creating even more scrolls, seemed to highlight the undeniable fact that the Jews weren’t going anywhere, and that Christianity as a belief was growing in tandem with the piles of papyrus. In the scribes’ chamber, Patra had Atilius working on a tablet borrowed from Samaria, translating it from Hebrew to Greek. What Patra and her colleagues found particularly fascinating about the tablet was that it seemed to recount the familiar tale of Jesus, but in this version, the Hebrews’ archangel Gabriel referred to the Messiah as “Simon.” “Have we determined how old it is?” Patra asked Atilius as she bent over his shoulder. Atilius continued writing, his gnarly, old, ink-stained fingers as steady as a painter’s. “During the rule of Octavian, same time as Jesus … This from the original transcriber.
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