I solved it.  Of course, I cheated. I'm a programmer, not a puzzle master.
I solve stuff with a computer I stripped all the punctuation and spacing out
making one long string of letters. Then, I searched for strings such as
GENESIS, MATTHEW, etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Emerson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 12:49 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Friday Puzzle

On Friday 20 June 2003 7:54 am, Paul Edwards posed the following:

> There are thirty books of the Bible in this paragraph.  Can you find them?

Presuming, for the moment, that the first sentance is in fact asking you to
find a different occurrace of "thirty books" than the sentance itself, we
see
at the end...

> [...] there really are 30
> books of the Bible lurking somewhere in this paragraph waiting to be
found.

which is where I'll stipulate is the answer.  The remaining "fluff" text:

> This is a most remarkable puzzle.  It was found by a gentleman in an
> airplane seat pocket, on a flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu, keeping
him
> occupied for hours. ...

is a red herring -- if indeed someone had found it stuffed in a seat pocket,

why would it contain the text "He enjoyed it so much, he passed it on to
some
friends."?  [or any of the other "future occurances and comments" that would

not have existed for "the gentleman in an airplane"]

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