Warthur

Are you seriously suggesting that if a book quotes from non-fiction sources, it must itself be truthful non-fiction?

This is madness. It implies that if I wrote a book about how JFK was killed by his own clone, and quoted from JFK's writings and from witness testimony to the Warren Commission, then my book would be true.

dado

you are confusing extancy with veracity. a text called "Isaiah" is indeed known to be real: the contents of that text, however, are just as surely known to be *not* real. so yes, a quote may have been made accurately, but to claim from that that the text must be "real" is no different than claiming a repitition of a lie turns the lie into a truth.