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Summary: Why Lloyd Graham has no references
Review: This book is both practicably useful and nearly worthless. It is worthless as scholarship. It is useful as a source of ideas.Not all scholarly works include references. Some truths are obvious and need no corroboration. Graham's work is of another kind and should have them. He has no references because his ideas sound remarkably like the esoteric systems of some secret orders. One such organization headquartered on an island near England, uses studies in various mythologies to teach a nearly identical cosmology. Three things are painfully clear. First, Mr. Graham has little, if any, knowledge of Bible languages, a requirement even the poorest seminary imposes on its students. Second, he has not heeded his own advice and read other's viewpoints. There are better non-mystical cosmologies than his, done by recognized scholars who refer to sources, Zecharia Sitchin among the foremost. Compared to those alternatives, Graham falls to the ground. Third, Graham hasn't the courage of his convictions, and tells us nothing of himself or how he came to know what he presents as truth. Has he has any academic accomplishments? The thing to be pitied is that Graham has many truths scattered about; not diamonds, but more the occasional smooth, translucent rock in a pile of common gravel. How he came by them is a mystery, and that puts me in mind of John Wesley's definition of fools and madmen: "From right premises, fools draw wrong conclusions, and from wrong premises madmen draw right conclusions." Learning if Lloyd Graham might be either of these isn't worth slogging through nearly 500 pages of verbosity laced with bitterness and arrogance. "The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series" by Alain Danielou is a much better source for this information, and is available from Amazon. Is Graham's work useful? Yes, in two ways. First, for the resourceful preacher, it is a fountain of inspiration. Reverse the negatives, fold the interpretation of the older myth into the Bible story, and viola! Sorry, Mr. Graham, but after all, you should not be surprised that a churchman would do this. Second, let it be rewritten in 150 pages, some references added, and if not a small biography, then at least a photograph, that we might see (if not permitted to know) who Lloyd Graham is.
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Summary: Destroys belief in old myth systems
Review: This book was recommended to me by a friend some years ago.
It's very abstract and quite frankly I don't believe all the points about his own comosgonic/cosmologic theories. BUT, when it comes to doing some comparative religion, this book points out very succinctly where a lot of those Bible myths originated and it wasn't on Mt. Sinai.
Also, some footnotes and references would have been good. Like Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible, nothing is cross referenced. I find that unacceptable. But the book is otherwise quite good.
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Summary: Interesting but...
Review: This may be a good weapon to infuriate your Christian friends until they read it for themselves. I say this due to the glaring lack of ANY SUPPORTING EVIDENCE. Quoting poetry, philosophy, and ONES' SELF doesn't quite cut it. No Footnotes, Bibliography, Quotes, etc. I've tried looking for his subject matter on the Internet and I've found nothing. Check this book out at a local bookstore like I did. The book is interesting in concept and well written, but it is one long gratuitous statement. Credibility is usually evinced with supporting evidence.
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Summary: Know your Mythology!
Review: Though this book offers no reference to the author or a bibliography. If you are a student of mythology you will see where he stands. The truth is sometimes hard to swallow. Exspecially if your life has been controled by Fear and Guilt. The bible offers to many contridictions, and its history, for the most part is incorrect. Now if you were to gather most of his footnotes you could make a bibliography of your own. Or if you are not a lazy couch potatoe, you can read the other myths, some that were written 100 to 1000 or more years before the bible to see the correlation. The bible was written by the had of man, with greed and focus on the material world. Once Humans make the decision to Love, we can end this 2000 year old hypocrisy.
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