About the Author

Robert M. Price, PhD Drew University, has served as Professor of Religion at Mount Olive College, pastor of First Baptist Church in Montclair, New Jersey, and Director of the Metro NY Center for Inquiry. Among his many books he is the author of Beyond Born Again, The Widow Traditions in Luke-Acts, Deconstructing Jesus, and The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man.

Reviews

By means of fictions both wild and realistic, Price shakes up and reshuffles conventional wisdom and helps us to escape the mental blinders and shackles of traditional assumptions about the historical Jesus--shackles that have prevented us from perceiving the empty spaces where expected evidence is absent and have restrained us from pursuing hitherto-unnoticed evidence whithersoever it would lead us.
--Frank R. Zindler
author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew Robert M. Price is today's most gifted chronicler of religion's weird frontiers. His expertise ranges from the minutiae of Biblical criticism and religious history to the most rambunctious corners of popular culture--and oh, the connections he discerns! One of the stranger creatures to emerge at the junction of religion and pop culture has been the 'lost gospel' genre of fiction, which has not only been lucrative but sometimes frighteningly influential. In Price's Secret Scrolls, the 'lost gospel' genre receives the analysis it has always deserved--and as Mencken might have said, it gets it good and hard.
--Tom Flynn
editor of Free Inquiry magazine and The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief Robert M. Price's Secret Scrolls, a study of the curious subgenre of Lost Gospel novels, is written with his customary melding of immense learning and lively prose. Starting with a now-obscure novel of 1904 and proceeding through such popular works as Irving Wallace's The Word and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Price's treatise is itself a literary and theological thriller of the first order.
--S. T. Joshi
author of H. P. Lovecraft: A Life and The Unbelievers