The Scroll Seekers

About the Book

This historical novel recounts the second-century adventures of the patriarch Bishop Irenaeus, from the little Roman colony of Lugdunum, as he collects and evaluates all the scrolls that would eventually become the New Testament. An enormous amount of research on the origins of the Bible has accumulated over the last few decades, and the purpose of this book is to bring that material to life through dramatization. The skeptical philosopher Demetrios and the four bodyguards are fictitious. But Irenaeus and his book Against Heresy, the status of the church, the details of Roman life, and all the scrolls collected by our characters are factual.

About the Author

W. Milton Timmons holds a PhD in communications from the University of Southern California and has taught all aspects of speech, drama, radio, TV, film, and journalism for thirty years. He was head of the Motion Picture Department at Los Angeles Valley College for twenty-two years and, before that, was head of the Broadcasting Department at Sam Houston State University in Texas. He is the author of several books, including Orientation to Cinema; Everything About the Bible That You Never Had Time to Look Up; 2084 - A Tale of Post America; and the philosophical novel, Regarding an Angel’s Flight. Since his retirement from teaching, he has devoted his time to researching and writing scholarly books.