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[Levi Ray]

Chaucer didn't write Hamlet?  LIES I say!!!   LIES!!!!

On 5/25/06, James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, if the book gets people reading -real- books about the subject,
> that's great.  Problem is, it doesn't direct readers to real books,
> and readers who get interested because of Brown's book probably don't
> know the difference between a real book on the subject and hooey and,
> in fact, they'll probably start off biased against real sources
> because of Brown's book.
>
> I decided once and for all that the book was utterly idiotic when I
> read the top Biblical Scholar in the novel claim that the Dead Sea
> Scrolls were collected by an early Christian community.
>
> That's almost like saying Chaucer wrote Hamlet, since the earliest DSS
> texts (to my knowledge) date to the late 2nd cent. BC.
>
> If you're really interested in this stuff, begin with a survey of the
> Hebrew Scriptures at your local college and then read a good church
> history or two.
>
> DVC was badly written in a number of ways.  Sentence structure was
> bad, descriptions were unimaginative, the cliffhanger at the end of
> every chapter got repetitious (seems like Dave Barry made fun of
> this), but I read it to the end because I found myself caring a little
> bit about the characters and interested in what was going to
> happen...plus, it was a very quick and easy read.
>
> Jim R
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