Talk:pious fiction

• Borras, Judit, Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, BRILL, 1999, p 117:

  ".. the overwhelming consensus of modern scolarship is that the conquest tradition of |Joshua is a pious fiction composed by the deuteronomistic school ..."

• Skousen, Royal, ::The Book of Mormon: the earliest text, Yale University Press, 2009, p x:

  "Outsiders generally consider this book [the Book of Mormon] a nineteenth-century hoax or pious fiction …"

• Carson, D. A. For the Love of God: A Daily Companion for Discovering the Riches of God's Word, Good News Publishers, 2006, p 19:

  "Many critics doubt that the account of The Book of Daniel is anything more than pious fiction to encourage the Jews."

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  Eickelman , Dale, Muslim politics, Princeton University Press, 2004, p 26:

  "Emendations and additions to purportedly invariant and complete Islamic law (sharia) have occurred throughout Islamic history…. Muslim jurists have rigorously maintained the pious fiction that there can be no change in divinely revealed law, even as they have exercised their independent judgment (ijtihad) to create a kind of de facto legislation."

• Pike, Fredrick, FDR's Good Neighbor Policy: sixty years of generally gentle chaos, University of Texas Press, 1995, p 79:

  "In the Depression era, a great many Americans, north and south of the border, succumbed to the pious fiction that underlay the Krausist-Areilist-Marxist nonmaterial rewards aspect of good neighborliness… Without the occasional seasoning of pious fictions, concocted by intellectuals who in their delusions of grandeur try to introduce elements of dream live into crude reality, might not the real world be a far more vicious jungle than it is?"