In Both Worlds

A naval surgeon following a frightened animal into a cave on Mount Lebanon finds a man preserved in the stone—and a sealed manuscript clasped to his breast. Its author, the writing claims, is Lazarus, raised from the dead by Christ.

The tale begins in the nineteenth century, among officers gathered aboard a British warship, as the surgeon recounts his discovery near ancient Sidon. Coins date the manuscript to the age of Nero; its pages promise the autobiography of Lazarus of Bethany, a man who has crossed the boundary between life and death. Yet the scholar asked to read it dismisses the account as heresy and fancy. What wisdom—and what unsettling experiences—did Lazarus leave behind in the darkness of that cave?

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