The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (3 Volumes)
By: Robert Alter
4.75
Format: 3132 pages, Hardcover
A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stun…
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1. Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
By: Daniel Gordis
4.31
Format: 560 pages, ebook
Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the … read more
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2. Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3)
By: Tiina Nunnally , Brad Leithauser , Sigrid Undset
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureat… read more
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3. The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction
By: Amanda H. Podany
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book explores the lands of the ancient Near East from around 3200 BCE to 539 BCE. The earth-sh… read more
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4. In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis
By: Karen Armstrong
3.86
Format: 302 pages,
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5. The Prose Edda
By: Snorri Sturluson , Jesse L. Byock
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
'What was the beginning, or how did things start? What was there before?' The Prose Eddais the most… read more
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6. Reflections on the Psalms
By: C.S. Lewis
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms… read more
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7. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
By: Harold Bloom
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books… read more
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8. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
By: Harold Bloom
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canonis more than a required reading list-it is a vision… read more
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9. The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
By: Will Durant , John Little
5.00
Format: 64 pages,
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10. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
11. Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
By: Alice Oswald
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
To retrieve the Iliad's' energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story and her account focuses b… read more
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12. Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction
By: None
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What is knowledge? Is it the same as opinion or truth? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in… read more
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14. The Book of Enoch
By: Enoch , R.H. Charles
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
R. H. Charles provides a definitive translation of one of the most noted apocalyptic works still in… read more
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15. ESV Study Bible
By: Anonymous , Wayne Grudem , Lane T. Dennis
3.00
Format: 9 pages, Hardcover
The ESV Study Biblewas designed to help you understand the Bible in a deeper way. Created by a dive… read more
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16. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
17. The New Testament
By: David Bentley Hart
4.56
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most celebrated writers on religion comes this fresh, bold, and unsettling new tran… read more
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"This is all evidence, however, of a deeper truth about these texts: They are not beguiling exercises in suasive rhetoric or feats of literary virtuosity; rather, they are chiefly the devout and urgen…"-David Bentley Hart, The New Testament
"Before embarking on this project, I doubt I ever truly properly appreciated precisely how urgent the various voices of the New Testament authors are, or how profound the provocations of what they wer…"-David Bentley Hart, The New Testament
18. The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (3 Volumes)
By: Robert Alter
4.75
Format: 3132 pages, Hardcover
A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stun… read more
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19. The Gospels: A New Translation
By: Sarah Ruden
4.35
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An "electrifying [and] compulsively readable" new translation of the Gospels, destined to become a… read more
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20. The New Testament for Everyone, Third Edition: A Fresh Translation
By: N.T. Wright
4.68
Format: 546 pages, Kindle Edition
A Translation of the Good News for Everyone If the Bible cannot be understood by everyone, then it… read more
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21. NRSV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture
By: Zondervan
4.76
Format: 8946 pages, Kindle Edition
CONTEXT CHANGES EVERYTHINGYou’ve heard many Bible stories hundreds of times, but how many behind-th… read more
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