From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
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