Book on Moses
Ralph Nielsen (nielsen@uidaho.edu)
Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:32:35 -0800
IAN DORION 4/1
>My feelings are that if we can get to people before they get caught up in
>this
>fundamentalist craze, it will die off for lack of converts.
>
>The question is, "How do we do this?" At least half the people in this
>country
>can't read at the eighth grade level. With few exceptions, this is where they
>get their converts. So I wrote a book, "Holy Moses?" It's not a great
>literary
>work by any stretch of the imagination. It just makes fun of the five
>books of
>Moses and urges the reader to read the bible along with the book. Will it
>sell?
>I don't have the foggiest idea. Prometheus Books turned it down so I sent
>it to
>a literary agent. It's been two weeks and I haven't heard.
RALPH NIELSEN
I'm sure the reason Prometheus Books turned you down is because they
already publish the book "Some Mistakes of Moses" by the late great atheist
Robert G. Ingersoll. It is a photoprint of the original 1879 edition. It
reads just like what I imagine Ian's book does, except in rather more
florid Victorian prose. There is no copyright notice in the reprint
edition, so I presume you are free to copy from it "in extenso." (Isn't
that a nice Victorian phrase?)