James H. Hunter
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James Hogg Hunter was a Canadian author of early evangelical Christian thrillers, notably The Mystery of Mar Saba (1940). Hunter was the editor of the Evangelical Christian magazine, published in Toronto.
Monastery that is potentially embarrassing to Christianity. The document is later exposed as the work of a hoaxer. The hero is a British policeman in the Palestine mandate and his born-again American assistant. The villain of the story is a close-shaven German archaeologist who leads a band of Arab "Hooded Ones," including the cowardly "Abid of the Scar," who stabs a girl in the back.
's Secret Gospel of Mark
hoax (1960 onwards).
's Author of the Quarter Century.
The Mystery of Mar Saba (1940)
Plot: The story revolves around finding a long-lost document in the Mar SabaMar Saba
The Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified, known in Arabic as Mar Saba , is a Greek Orthodox monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley in the West Bank east of Bethlehem. The traditional date for the founding of the monastery by Saint Sabas of Cappadocia is the year 483 and today houses around 20...
Monastery that is potentially embarrassing to Christianity. The document is later exposed as the work of a hoaxer. The hero is a British policeman in the Palestine mandate and his born-again American assistant. The villain of the story is a close-shaven German archaeologist who leads a band of Arab "Hooded Ones," including the cowardly "Abid of the Scar," who stabs a girl in the back.
Later controversy
Hunter's The Mystery of Mar Saba later became the source for some of the elements in Morton SmithMorton Smith
Morton Smith was an American professor of ancient history at Columbia University. He is best known for his controversial discovery of the Mar Saba letter, a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria containing excerpts from a Secret Gospel of Mark, during a visit to the monastery at Mar Saba in...
's Secret Gospel of Mark
Secret Gospel of Mark
The Secret Gospel of Mark is a putative non-canonical Christian gospel known exclusively from the Mar Saba letter, which describes Secret Mark as an expanded version of the canonical Gospel of Mark with some episodes elucidated, written for an initiated elite.In 1973 Morton Smith , professor of...
hoax (1960 onwards).
Banners of Blood (1947)
Hunter's second mystery story was a popular exposition of the fundamentalist Christian view concerning the question of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.Thine is the Kingdom
Thine Is the Kingdom, a cold-war mystery story moving from the gloomy environs of bureaucratic Moscow to the tranquility which pervades the Canadian woodland in summer" won $4000 first prize in the second International Christian Fiction Contest.How sleep the Brave!
Hunter's fourth novel How Sleep the Brave! was subtitled "A Novel of 17th Century Scotland". It was self-published by the magazine Hunter edited, Evangelical Publishers, Toronto.After Hunter later published How Sleep the Brave he was named ZondervanZondervan
Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Zondervan is a founding member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association .- History :...
's Author of the Quarter Century.
Other works
- A flame of fire: the life and work of R. V. Bingham, 1961
- Adrift: the story of twenty days on a raft in the South Atlantic Ethel Roffe Bell, James Hogg Hunter - 1943
- The hammer of God - 1965
- The great deception - 1945
- Evidential Faith: Evolution
- The bow in the cloud 1948
- Uncle Jim's stories from nature's wonderland 1953
- Out of the ivory palaces and other Christmas stories 1954