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“As the Italian saying has it, Se non è vero, è ben trovato—maybe it’s not true, it’s still a good story.”
― Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
― Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
“One wonders why the Bible was ever taken literally; the Hebrews always understood the early parts of Genesis to be fables. The modern insistence on literalism is largely due to the influence of southern U.S. Protestants around 1910.”
― Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
― Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
“while in certain countries (Australia, for instance) keeping a diary could be a court-martial offense.”
― Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
― Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
“the ‘minimalist’ view of the Bible as wholly fictitious, and unhooked from historical reality, may be as much of a mistake as the biblical literalism it sought to supersede.”
― Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
― Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
“voraciously”
― Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
― Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
