{"id":3531,"date":"2008-08-18T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/lost-book-of-the-law\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T08:01:00","slug":"lost-book-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/lost-book-of-the-law.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST Book of the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lostpedia.com\/images\/7\/7f\/AlpertItems.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lostpedia.com\/images\/7\/7f\/AlpertItems.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10775726\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">episode<\/a> \u201cWhat Kate Did\u201d, Mr. Eko makes reference to the \u201cBook of Law\u201d that was found by <a href=\"http:\/\/lost-forum.com\/showthread.php?t=23104\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Josiah<\/a> in the temple in Jerusalem. He then reveals that he found a book, a <a href=\"http:\/\/lost.wikia.com\/wiki\/Holy_Bible\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bible<\/a>, in which was hidden what turned out to be the missing parts of the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Dharma<\/a> Initiative orientation video for the Swan station.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, we\u2019ve learned that Richard Alpert brought an old book with \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lostpedia.com\/wiki\/Book_of_Laws\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Book of Laws<\/a>\u201d on the cover when he visited young John Locke. Are we to think of John as a Josiah-like figure, who will resbuild or restore something?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the show\u2019s creators are aware that there are Biblical scholars who\u2019ve suspected that the book of the law \u201cfound\u201d in Josiah\u2019s time may have <em>been created (or at least revised and edited) <\/em>in order to support Josiah\u2019s \u201creforms\u201d, which were perhaps more like a revolution.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, in <em>The Matrix <\/em>Neo kept software hidden in a copy of Baudrillard\u2019s <em>Simulacra and Simulations<\/em> (or a simulation in book form of that essay). Baudrillard in fact provided much of the subplot for the Matrix films. 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