(March 2, 2013 at 1:40 pm)EGross Wrote: Ah, 7th century. Maybe the Jews took it from them? There is also a Chinese story of a guy who was invulnerable to gire, his brother to water, and his other brother to the axe. I guess lots of culturs like these stories.
This could be the real reason why the same themes kept turning up. The google book which mentioned Mildred referred to the legend of the Jewish boy but I haven't been able to find out which story came first.
(March 2, 2013 at 1:40 pm)EGross Wrote: I left out that Abraham was to do this at the "end of days", since, at that time, there was no heaven/hell that Kabbilistic Judaism would be introducing several centuries later.
As far as intermarriage, the Book of Ezra shows it was a big problem whenever Jews were in exile or lived among non-Jews. Most likely this was a warning.
Thanks for the information.
(March 2, 2013 at 1:40 pm)EGross Wrote: I read a while back that the director, not at all impressed with John Wayne saying "Now.. I... know... that... he... was... truely... the... son... of... God!" said, "John, can we gat some awe into that line?" Whereupon John wany repeated the line in the next take:
"Awwww... Now.. I... know... that... he... was... truely... the... son... of... God!"
They must have gone with the first version minus the Awwww.
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?