The First

Two thousand years ago, someone buried a question the world was not ready to answer.

In 2034, a catastrophic flood tears open the Judean Desert and exposes a hidden chamber beneath the ruins of a forgotten first-century community. Inside are forty-one sealed jars—and an archive that has survived untouched since the age of Rome.

The first fragment is more dangerous than any treasure. It describes an effort to record, from living witnesses, what a mysterious teacher actually said before the sto...