Quick query
I was reading The Dalkey Archive last night. Towards the end, one of the characters makes the claim that the Holy Spirit is not mentioned in the Bible - that it only got shoehorned in much later.

I can't be arsed checking. Does anyone know if this is true?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 11:49, 8 replies)

Dunno
But I'm re-reading 'At Swim-Two-Birds' for the umpteenth time. What a great author he was. Love the anthologies of his Irish Times columns too.
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 12:04, closed)

At-Swim-Two-Birds
I got halfway through it a couple of months ago, and then stopped (I can't remember why). I must pick it up again.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 12:11, closed)

It's quite a fractured narrative.
...with lots of tangents and other long asides.

Whereas 'The Third Policeman' is just a straight-forward cracking read. Another gem- give that one a go instead.
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 12:25, closed)

This claim is untrue
Nothing has really been 'shoehorned' in at any particularly late date. The latest any of the Bible was written was around 120AD.
(Stu Moo winner of five nobble piece prizes, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 12:35, closed)

That I know.
The claim in the book puts the HS later.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 12:47, closed)

kay
well the idea of the holy spirit first appears in snippets in the old testament. Not really much to the book's claim I'd say.
(Stu Moo winner of five nobble piece prizes, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 13:08, closed)

Nice to see an Irish author get a mention round these parts.
Myles Na Gopaleen/Flann O'Brien is Ireland's most under-appreciated genius.

You can buy his collected newspaper columns - they're called 'The Cruiskeen Lawn' or 'The Full Jug'.

rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 13:15, closed)

I'm
in the middle of The Poor Mouth.

Oh, hiya baz! Still on cloud nine after that match, eh? :)
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 15:38, closed)