As for the love triangle between Moses, Nefretiri and Rameses, that doesn't appear in scriptures or history.
"Justice is, in the Hebrew scriptures of the Bible, defined as when you're an advocate for a person who cannot be an advocate for themselves.
And unless I get a new version of the scriptures it's really not my place to just say, 'OK, I'm just going to evolve.'" Huckabee is currently promoting a book, God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, which heralds what he says are the values of the states located between the more liberal east and west coasts.
"ORIGINAL sin" in the economic scriptures differs slightly from its theological counterpart.
Having lost their locus of holiness, Jews were dispersed even more extensively than before across the Mediterranean world; some members of the widening Jewish diaspora embraced the Christian understanding of the Hebrew scriptures while others rejected it.
Before long guilt-ridden bankers were commissioning great works of religious art in the hope that they might after death escape the damnation that the scriptures foretold.
But Mormon scriptures say some harsh things about dark-skinned people and until 1978 blacks were barred from the priesthood, which, in Mormon parlance, includes more or less any devout male over the age of 12.
For the next 35 years, his people studied the scriptures in Hebrew and in complete isolation, before being discovered by Israel's first ambassador to east Africa.
They are embracing an account of man's origins promoted by Young Earth Creationists who lean on a painstakingly literal reading of the Scriptures, swatting aside the counter-claims of science (fossils are a relic of Noah's flood, they argue, and evolution is a myth peddled by atheists).
If Ms Armstrong gives the bare bones and it is just the bare bones of an alternative view of the scriptures, that is a badly needed service.
In fact there are many references in the Hebrew scriptures to the Messiah and his mother; the Dead Sea Scrolls have made this even clearer.
