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What if the language lost at Babel could be recovered? The First Silence: The Reliquary of Iona is a literary thriller by biblical scholar Michael J. Morris, taking readers from Dublin to the Vatican archives and Iona.
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For a friend who enjoys biblical mysteries, start with the language lost at Babel or the Watchers and their forbidden teachings.
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