The Word (novel)
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The Word is a 1972 mystery/thriller novel by Irving Wallace, which explores into the origin of the Bible, in the same vein as The Da Vinci Code.
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The plot of the novel is based around the discovery of a new gospel written by Jesus' younger brother, James in the first century. In the gospel, many facts of Jesus' life, including the years not mentioned in the Bible, are revealed not to be as factual as they once thought to be.
