Title: The prophetess : a novel /
Authors: Wood, Barbara
Publisher: Little, Brown,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Manuscripts Collectors and collecting Egypt Sinai Fiction.; Women archaeologists Egypt Sinai Fiction.; Women prophets Fiction.; Manuscripts collectors & collecting; Sinai (Egypt) Fiction.; Egypt Fiction; Sinai; Egypt
Abstract: An American archeologist in Egypt discovers papyrus scrolls that clearly establish women priests existed in early Christianity. The archeologist, a feminist, smuggles the scrolls to California, pursued by the Egyptians and the Vatican, the latter fearful of losing male dominance. She is saved from death by a handsome priest with whom she has a romance. By the author of Virgins of Paradise.