[lit-ideas] Re: Repent-or-Fry Miniseries
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:15:51 -0700
> The Nero=666 idea is the most plausible decoding accepted by mainstream
> theologians, so maybe Reader's D would bite....
ck: Omigod, Eric--you've come up with the next Da Vinci Code. Dumb it down
(but do include the Essenes), explain the dumbed-down version until you
think a cockroach couldn't miss your premise, throw in a generic love story,
set the story on the Amalfi coast, and it's lattes all around for a
lifetime. Maybe even a large pre-war apartment with a doorman.
weekending,
Carol
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:42 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Repent-or-Fry Miniseries
> If the Christian world would wake up, realize that the book of
> Revelations is a profoundly Kabbalistic Jewish text, probably written by
> an Essene, it would do worlds of good for Christian theology.
>
>
> ____
>
> Good idea! I'll try to write a gee-whiz article for Reader's Digest
> advancing the most likely scholarly thesis that "666" was a number code
> for the Emperor Nero, and that sections of Revelations were encoded to
> prevent a messenger carrying the scroll, if intercepted by Roman
> soldiers, from being executed as a rebel.
>
> The Nero=666 idea is the most plausible decoding accepted by mainstream
> theologians, so maybe Reader's D would bite....then all the Hollywood
> fear mongers might try to sue me for "taking the fun out of scary
> religion films." But at least I'd have my sixty bucks.
>
> EY
>
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