tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post5659853311628069812..comments2024-02-28T20:08:29.312-08:00Comments on The Pictorial Arts: Knowledge and DeathThomas Haller Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-37701883892205614012012-09-08T11:12:39.083-07:002012-09-08T11:12:39.083-07:00Daniel, I'm fascinated by 'early literatur...Daniel, I'm fascinated by 'early literature'. One, I wonder about the original inspirations for the authors. And two, I wonder how so many people took the stories as gospel.Thomas Haller Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278003392092477845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347683455597417526.post-86471607526723389712012-09-08T04:11:04.561-07:002012-09-08T04:11:04.561-07:00If Richard Elliott Friedman (The Hidden Book in th...If Richard Elliott Friedman (<i>The Hidden Book in the Bible</i>) and others are correct, then this part of the Bible was part of a work written as a <em>novel</em>, which was later <em>incorporated</em> into ostensibly holy scripture in a manner that allows a great deal of the original work of fiction to be recovered by extraction.<br /><br />(This is not to suggest that the novel didn't itself incorporate features of still earlier stories.)Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.com