I am researching a book. Input?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I prefer Niven, Heinlein, Chalker, et al.

[The Grand Nudger]

If the Bible is full of madness and idiocy, why would you possible care what books are left out of it? Would you expect the inclusion of the listed books to make the Bible less mad and idiotic?

As an atheist, I wouldn’t much care if the Bible included anything from recipes to auto repair. It still wouldn’t make me a believer.
Boru

Quick sideline, it actually does.  Also pornography.  It's basically the stack of magazines you found in your unmarried uncles garage after he died.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If the Bible is full of madness and idiocy, why would you possible care what books are left out of it? Would you expect the inclusion of the listed books to make the Bible less mad and idiotic?

As an atheist, I wouldn’t much care if the Bible included anything from recipes to auto repair. It still wouldn’t make me a believer.
Boru

Quick sideline, it actually does.  Also pornography.  It's basically the stack of magazines you found in your unmarried uncles garage after he died.

It actually doesn’t.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

You'll find 53 verses on how to repair anything from a house to a wall to a cart..and many other things. (hint, the answer is god)

There are so many recipes in magic book that there is a whole industry in making them or publishing them.

....and then, ofc, there's the song of solomon.....buttressing the faces of death style narratives about foreskin collection.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You'll find 53 verses on how to repair anything from a house to a wall to a cart..and many other things.  (hint, the answer is god)

There are so many recipes in magic book that there is a whole industry in making them or publishing them.

....and then, ofc, there's the song of solomon.....buttressing the faces of death style narratives about foreskin collection.

(Bold mine)

Very authoritatively stated and very wrong.

Name one recipe in the Bible. Just one.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

A personal favorite of mine, and of the born again community here in the us.

“Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. 10 Weigh out twenty shekels[a] of food to eat each day and eat it at set times. 11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin[b] of water and drink it at set times. 12 Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.” 13 The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Not a recipe. How much wheat? Baked for how long?

If I tell you to go out and get some metal, plastic, and glass, is that a recipe for building a car?

Boru

[Silver]

My favorite recipe is for the golem.

[The Grand Nudger]

Ingredients, portioning, even specific preparation instructions. This is one of many (and the most hilarious one, ofc). Magic book actually describes a great many meals and there's a market for "christian nutritional advice" here in the states. It's a big book that advocates for a vision of divinity by telling stories about people. It can't help but contain recipes and instructions...and porn.

Obviously nothing to do with your larger point, just an interest of mine.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ingredients, portioning, even specific preparation instructions.  This is one of many (and the most hilarious one, ofc).  Magic book actually describes a great many meals and there's a market for "christian nutritional advice" here in the states.

It’s nothing of the kind. It tell the reader to ‘make bread’ and how much bread and water to eat. It’s not instructions on HOW to make bread.

Describing a meal is also not a recipe.

Boru