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We love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.

(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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I once heard somewhere that it was written 70 years after Jesus
Do you know if that's fact? It'd be a bit concerning that it's based on stories handed down through two generations...
(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 20:37, 2 replies)
More like three or four.
Folk didn't live as long back then.
(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 22:54, closed)
Some of it was...
...but it was during a time where there was a strong oral tradition. (heh.) To pass school (or whatever young Jewish boys did back then) they had to be able to recite the first four books of the old testament, word perfect.
(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 23:36, closed)

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