From: jwkenne@attglobal.net

On 2015-04-17 01:16:39 +0000, William Vetter said:

> Dorothy J Heydt laid this down on his screen :
>> In article ,
>> William Vetter   wrote:
>>> on 04/15/2015, John W Kennedy supposed :
>>>> On 2015-04-15 07:28:55 +0000, Kay Shapero said:
>>>>
>>>>> In article , mdhangton@gmail.com says...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's the worst you can come up with?
>>>>>
>>>>> "Book".. though come to think of it there's one of those out there,
>>>>> though the title isn't in English, and it seems to be quite popular. :)
>>>>
>>>> "The Book" actually, mediated through a language with no definite article.
>>>
>>> I think that ... Quran means readings.
>>
>> Yes.  It seems an angel appeared to Muhammad and said to him,
>> "Read."  He answered, "I can't read."  (He was a camel-driver,
>> wasn't he?)  The angel repeated, "Read."  "What shall I read?"
>> "Read of God who created man from a clot of blood..." and so on.
>>
>> It's rather like the story of the English poet Caedmon, as told
>> by Bede; the angel said "Sing something to me."  Caedmon said, "I
>> can't sing."  "Nevertheless, you will sing to me."  "What shall I
>> sing?"  "Sing the creation."  Which Caedmon proceeded to do, and
>> we still have the text, as quoted by Bede.
>>
>> Curiously enough, both these men had their creative experience
>> around the same time, early seventh century CE.
>>
>> (Maybe it was the same angel? :) )
>
> In a similar visitation by the Angel Moroni on a hill near Palmyra, NY,
> _The Book of Mormon_ was given to Joseph Smith.  Mormon, he explained
> to us, was the name of Moroni's father.
> _The Pearl of Great Price_ is Smith's sequel to _The Book of Mormon_.
> I'm not sure if the angels gave him these titles, but they're more
> creative than just Sutras or Analects.

Smith was a modern. He expected books to have proper titles, though
Biblical tradition militated against that.

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