RE: What are the Characteristics of a NT Christian?
April 19, 2017 at 12:21 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2017 at 12:22 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 19, 2017 at 9:37 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: An example of a borrowed story is Jaws, based on Moby Dick. It seems like the type of analysis you're proposing would indicate that Jaws is not based on Moby Dick. A borrowed story wouldn't likely be a copy-and-paste, the details would be updated and the elements of the story preserved.
It's more like saying that the someone borrowed the story of Jaws to write Moby Dick. Without extensive knowledge of the 19th century whale trade, he would likely, unless he was very careful, accidentally incorporate inappropriate modern details. Or like if I wrote a biography of Doctor Livingston and based my geography on a modern map of Africa. My errors, like writing about countries that didn't yet exist, would reveal that my story was written many years after the fact. A contemporary of Livingston would be much more likely to get the names of the countries right.
