ASIN: B00RF1K0QG
Publisher: A Studio 29 Publication
Pages: 253
A papyrus concealed in a Kushite Prince's mummy tells of a youthful Jesus raised in an Egyptian tradition of diviners and healers.After a Prologue set just after the birth of Jesus, when Joseph must flee with Mary and the infant to Egypt in a caravan, and escape Herod's soldiers, Chapter 1 opens with Getorius and Arcadia tasked by Aelia Pulcheria with verifying a traditional route that marks the Holy Family's flight. The couple arrives at Pelusium in a hostile political and religious environment that resents Constantinople's meddling in the Egyptian [Coptic} Church. Only Governor Abinnaeus's secretary, Nepheros, befriends them. Before the governor and his wife, Dorothea, move to a winter villa, he trysts with Pennuta, his Kushite concubine, who demands that he marry her. Papnuthios, a physician experimenting with vivisection and reanimation, reports the discovery of the mummy of a ...
