> 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html