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	LCMSNews -- No. 146
	December 8, 2003

	Maier writes sequel
	to 1994 bestseller

	Dr. Paul L. Maier, Synod fourth vice president and professor of
ancient history at Western Michigan University, is author of a new book,
"More than a Skeleton."

	The new 352-page hardcover volume, a sequel to his 1994
best-selling novel, "A Skeleton in Gods Closet," is published by Thomas
Nelson, Inc.

	Both novels have Harvard professor Jonathan Weber, a Missouri
Synod Lutheran, as their central character. In More Than a Skeleton,
Weber shuttles between America and Israel as he deals with a character
believed by many to be the returned Christ, along with the resulting
issues.

	Christianity and Lutheranism are prominent in the new volume,
which is thought to be the first novel to take on the millennialist
theology of the Left Behind series.

	"A Skeleton in Gods Closet," now in its 20th printing, became
the #1 national bestseller in religious fiction shortly after it was
published.

	Maier is the author of numerous other scholarly and popular
books, some translated into a dozen languages.

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