15 must-read history books like Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End by Bart D. Ehrman

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Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End

By: Bart D. Ehrman

4.25

Format: 8 pages, Audiobook

A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical schol…

If you liked the history plot in Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End by Bart D. Ehrman , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Who Wrote the Bible?

By: Richard Elliott Friedman

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The contemporary classic The New York Times Book Review called "a thought-provoking [and] perceptiv… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Every biblical story reflects something that mattered to its author. Whenever we figure out what it was and why it mattered, we move a step closer to knowing who wrote a part of the Bible."

-Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible?

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2. The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics

By: Elaine Pagels

3.88

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the Nat… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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3. Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity

By: James D. Tabor

4.48

Format: 356 pages, ebook

This fascinating examination of the earliest years of Christianity reveals sharply competing ideas … read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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4. The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom

By: Candida R. Moss

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the e… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality

5. Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation

By: Elaine Pagels

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestsell… read more

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6. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World

By: Leon Festinger , Henry W. Riecken , Stanley Schachter

3.68

Format: 113 pages,

"We've all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the conv… read more

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7. Genesis for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Controversial, Misunderstood, and Abused Book of the Bible

By: Peter Enns , Jared Byas

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Given the fever-pitched controversies about evolution, Adam and Eve, and scientific evidence for th… read more

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8. The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 1

By: Joshua Bowen

4.21

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

The Old Testament is a fierce battleground for atheists and Christian apologists, with each side ac… read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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9. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. God: An Anatomy

By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

4.25

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"

-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy

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11. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

By: Will Sommer

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

By: Peter Enns

4.36

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more

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  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

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13. Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End

By: Bart D. Ehrman

4.25

Format: 8 pages, Audiobook

A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical schol… read more

Similar categories in Bart D. Ehrman's Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End book and Bart D. Ehrman's Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End

  • history
  • world history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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14. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire

By: Eckart Frahm

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires    At its … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

By: Matthew Dallek

3.97

Format: None pages, Audiobook

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

By: Andrew L. Whitehead

4.20

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

"Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration."-- Library Journal Power. Fear. Viol… read more

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  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Jesus calls us to be a light, not a wildfire."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"When it comes down to democracy or power, white Christian nationalism will choose power every time."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"Christian nationalism is not interested in a government for the people, by the people, but rather for a particular people, by a particular people."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

"Our ability to love, serve, and act as salt and light in our communities is not dependent on various symbols of Christianity dominating the civic landscape."

-Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

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17. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

By: Kevin M. Kruse

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times  bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

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18. God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

By: Esther J. Hamori

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bible is teeming with monsters. Giants tromp through the land of milk and honey; Leviathan swim… read more

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  • christianity
  • philosophy
  • religion
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  • spirituality
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19. The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos

By: Lawrence M. Krauss

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Lawrence Krauss explores the greatest unanswered questions at the forefront of science today, and l… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

By: Candida Moss

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meani… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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21. Exodus for Normal People: A Guide to the Story—and History—of the Second Book of the Bible

By: Peter Enns

4.30

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Behind the scenes of movies like The Ten Commandments, The Prince of Egypt, or Gods and Kings is a… read more

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4.25

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4.09

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Mike Rothschild

3.84

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

Derek Beres

4.10

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