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Old 01-29-2009, 11:47 AM   #26
Mithalwen
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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin View Post
Reading The Da Vinci Code as a source of Church history is about like reading the Bible as a science text.....
Quite.... personally I read it as comedy (DVC not the bible...) but I was aware that some people take it rather more seriously. However coincidentally I bought at the weekend "The Bible, the Biography" by Karen Armstrong which given her history, I imagine may be rather more reliable . I haven't got very far yet but the concept of a canon within a canon might have application to Tolkien's work.

by the by I do wonder which early spindoctor managed to get the Song of Songs to make the cut... though I am very glad it did...
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