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The Constantine Codex

Copyright © 2011 by Paul L. Maier. All rights reserved.

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Some Scripture quotations are taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Some Scripture quotations are taken from The Holy Bible, American Standard Version.

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maier, Paul L.

The Constantine codex / Paul L. Maier.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4143-3773-9 (hc) — ISBN 978-1-4143-3774-6 (sc) 1. Archaeologist—Fiction.

2. Bible. Manuscripts—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3563.A382C66 2011

813'.54—dc22 2011002146