20 Best nonfiction books like God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible by Candida Moss

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible by Candida Moss , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Last Temptation of Christ

By: None , None , None

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in None's The Last Temptation of Christ book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • religion
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2. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

By: Lucy Sante

3.70

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Sante's I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

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3. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

Similar categories in Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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4. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

By: Shannon Reed

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Reed's Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"I think, therefore, I cry..."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"Life is so much better with books than without."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

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5. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

4.29

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more

Similar categories in Gary J. Bass's Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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6. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

By: Laura E. Anderson

4.38

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more

Similar categories in Laura E. Anderson's When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"

-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

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8. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

By: Catherine Nixey

4.06

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Nixey's The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."

-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."

-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"

-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"

-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

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9. 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

Similar categories in Peter Enns's Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God) book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • christian
  • 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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10. 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 Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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11. Reading Genesis

By: Marilynne Robinson

4.10

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more

Similar categories in Marilynne Robinson's Reading Genesis book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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12. 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

Similar categories in Andrew L. Whitehead's American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • 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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13. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

By: Venki Ramakrishnan

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more

Similar categories in Venki Ramakrishnan's Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Jacobs's The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in Esther J. Hamori's God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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16. 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

Similar categories in Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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17. Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

By: Jacob L. Wright

4.23

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

 "A revelation, even to those who have read the Bible for a lifetime! "We witness how in the afterm… read more

Similar categories in Jacob L. Wright's Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"Law without a story was ineffective."

-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

"In the Song (of Songs), love defies death itself."

-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

"Both then and now, the most powerful means of creating community is to tell stories."

-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

"Without partnership between two, it is not realistic to expect a community of thousands to survive let alone thrive."

-Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

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18. Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ

By: Catherine Nixey

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”— New Yo… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Nixey's Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • history
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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19. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation

By: Brenda Wineapple

4.40

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent history of the 1925 Scopes trial and how the teaching of evolution in public schools … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
  • audiobook
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20. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

Similar categories in Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI book and Candida Moss's God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great

By: Rachel Kousser

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

16 Best audiobook books like God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of the Bible by Candida Moss

Transform Your Habits

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Lucy Sante

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Shannon Reed

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

Gary J. Bass

4.29

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20 Top audiobook books like Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation by Brenda Wineapple

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham

4.60

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