The Lost Book of Moses

1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

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The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible, tells the story of the oldest Bible in the world, how its outing as a fraud led to a scandalous death, and why archaeologists now believe it was real — if only they could find it. At once historical drama and modern-day investigation, the book simultaneously explores the 19th-century disappearance of a controversial Bible and the author’s hunt for the manuscript across eight countries and four continents.

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MEET THE AUTHOR

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Chanan Tigay is an award-winning journalist and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in publications including Smithsonian magazine, the Atlantic, GQ, and the New Yorker. His first book, The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible, won the Anne & Robert Cowan Writers Prize. His next book, Serpents in the Garden, is forthcoming from Public Affairs. He is a recent fellow of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and an associate professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.  His article on Aristides de Sousa Mendes appeared in the November 2021 issue of Smithsonian magazine.

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MEET THE INTERVIEWER

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Victoria Redel is the author of three books of poetry and five books of fiction, her fourth book of poems, Paradise, is forthcoming in February 2022. A recipient of numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim and the NEA, her work has been widely awarded, anthologized and translated into ten languages. Redel’s novel Loverboy was adapted for feature film, premiered at Sundance and directed by Kevin Bacon. She has taught at Columbia University, Davidson College, Vermont College of Fine Arts and is on the Sarah Lawrence College faculty. 

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