Title: Bad scholarship
Product review: I bought this book at a B&N; as a remainder. I'd like my $5 back...I could only read about 1/3 of it before putting in down. For a "scholarly" work it was just plain bad. The authors tried very hard to link disparate belief systems from around the world to continue their previous works, particularly Phillip Gardiner's "the Shining Ones"I was turned off by the constant attempts to link similarly pronounced words as having 'hidden' relationships to one another. It's like saying 'red' and 'read' must have similar meanings and etymologies since they are - gasp - pronounced the same.Another thing which turned me off was the constant attempts to link things without citations. The last straw was when the authors said that Jehovah was originally a volcano god and yet provided nothing in the notes to back up this claim.As I said at the start - I'd like my $5 back.
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