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In the 1990s, J R (Jamilla Rhines) Lankford, quit her former job – which involved jetting around the world to oversee the development of world standards for electrical products – to pursue a childhood dream of writing novels. She has since published four novels, including the Jesus Thief series and Murder Without Motive. She also founded the online novel workshop NovelPro, and is a literary agent.
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How did you come up with the idea for your latest novel, The Jesus
Thief?
My husband and I were watching a documentary on the Shroud of Turin in
October 1999. It said a scientist claimed to have found Type AB male blood on
the Shroud. I thought of the idea for the novel at once: What if the DNA were
intact? What if someone extracted it and tried to clone Jesus? I'd been
following developments in mammalian cloning since Dolly, the sheep, was cloned
in 1999. I started the writing and research the next day.
With human cloning in the news, do you believe someone might actually try
to clone DNA from the Shroud?
They'd fail if they did. Reportedly, only traces of blood were found on it
and the DNA was badly degraded. But the DNA of many other historical figures has
surely survived. Should we permit the cloning of Einstein? What about Mother
Theresa? Stalin? Criminals executed by the State? Should we clone the Son of God
if we could? Society must answer these questions because if the first human
clone doesn't already exist, it soon will. The equipment and fundamental
expertise to clone human beings is in every microbiology lab and fertility
clinic.
This was why you wrote The Jesus Thief?
Secondarily, yes. It's ...
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