The Exodus
By: Richard Elliott Friedman
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Exodus has become a core tradition of Western civilization. Millions read it, retell it, and c…
Want to Read $ 14.05"The documentary hypothesis once held (and maybe still holds) the agreement of the majority of scholars. But that is not what made it right. We do not determine truth by a majority vote. The hypothesis held us because its evidence was (and is) strong. None of the new alternatives has replaced it, not only because they have not won over a majority of the field, but because they remain insufficiently defended and because they have not dealt with the evidence that made the documentary hypothesis the standard for a century. (footnote)"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
"The documentary hypothesis once held (and maybe still holds) the agreement of the majority of scholars. But that is not what made it right. We do not determine truth by a majority vote. The hypothesis held us because its evidence was (and is) strong. None of the new alternatives has replaced it, not only because they have not won over a majority of the field, but because they remain insufficiently defended and because they have not dealt with the evidence that made the documentary hypothesis the standard for a century. (footnote)"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
"Could it not be that Moses and/or the Levites just came to it on their own?! Scholars have a tendency to take any parallel between ancient Israel's culture and assume that Israel took it from the others. Why? I see no good reason at all. Did Moses get this religion from the Midianites? All right then, where did the Midianites get it? Did Moses get if from Akhenaten? All right then, where did Akhenaten get it? If Ahkenaten thought of it on his own, why could an Israelite not have done it on his (or her) own as well? Is it a far-out thought that sometimes more than one person thinks of an idea--without influencing each other, without knowing each other? And we have another crucial consideration. The difference between Israel's monotheism and whatever preceded it is more than arithmetic. It is not just one god versus many. Biblical religion involves a different conception of what this one God is. In pagan religion, the gods and goddesses were identified with forces in nature: the sun, the sky, the sea, death, fertility, the storm wind. Even in Akhenaten's religion, whether it was fully monotheistic or not, Aten was identified closely with the sun. In Israelite religion, no force in nature can tell you more about God than any other."-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
"Could it not be that Moses and/or the Levites just came to it on their own?! Scholars have a tendency to take any parallel between ancient Israel's culture and assume that Israel took it from the others. Why? I see no good reason at all. Did Moses get this religion from the Midianites? All right then, where did the Midianites get it? Did Moses get if from Akhenaten? All right then, where did Akhenaten get it? If Ahkenaten thought of it on his own, why could an Israelite not have done it on his (or her) own as well? Is it a far-out thought that sometimes more than one person thinks of an idea--without influencing each other, without knowing each other? And we have another crucial consideration. The difference between Israel's monotheism and whatever preceded it is more than arithmetic. It is not just one god versus many. Biblical religion involves a different conception of what this one God is. In pagan religion, the gods and goddesses were identified with forces in nature: the sun, the sky, the sea, death, fertility, the storm wind. Even in Akhenaten's religion, whether it was fully monotheistic or not, Aten was identified closely with the sun. In Israelite religion, no force in nature can tell you more about God than any other."-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
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1. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.93
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more
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2. Day
By: Elie Wiesel , Anne Borchardt
3.79
Format: 109 pages, Paperback
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Bo… read more
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"I was lying. I would have to lie. A lot. She was ill. It's all right to lie to sick people."-Elie Wiesel, Day
"I thought he was talking about my grandmother. I didn't want to see her. I knew she had died - of thirst, maybe - and I was afraid she wouldn't be as I remembered her. I was afraid she wouldn't have …"-Elie Wiesel, Day
"...why should God be allied with death? Why should He want to kill a man who succeeded in seeing him? Now, everything became clear. God was ashamed. God likes to sleep with twelve-year-old girls. And…"-Elie Wiesel, Day
3. Dawn (The Night Trilogy #2)
By: Elie Wiesel , Frances Frenaye
3.66
Format: 320 pages,
Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-contr… read more
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4. To Life: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking
By: Harold S. Kushner
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Filled with wisdom and gentle humor, here is the essential book on Judaism's traditions and practic… read more
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5. Welcome to the Episcopal Church: An Introduction to Its History, Faith, and Worship
By: Christopher L. Webber , None , Frank T. Griswold III
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The perfect book for inquirers and new members, as well as current Church members who may be unfami… read more
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6. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
By: Israel Finkelstein , Neil Asher Silberman
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use … read more
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8. God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
By: Matthew Vines
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of most young people: to some… read more
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9. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
By: Tamim Ansary
3.87
Format: 144 pages,
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civil… read more
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10. Julian
By: Gore Vidal
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spr… read more
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11. The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
By: Amy-Jill Levine
3.57
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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12. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.87
Format: None pages,
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became … read more
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13. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
By: Reza Aslan
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and … read more
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14. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
By: Rebecca Goldstein
4.50
Format: 232 pages,
After Cass Seltzer's book becomes a surprise best seller, he's dubbed "the atheist with a soul" and… read more
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15. The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible
By: Matti Friedman
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A true-life thriller about the journey of one of the world's most precious manuscripts--the 10th ce… read more
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16. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
By: Noa Tishby
4.34
Format: None pages, Audiobook
AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more
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"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
17. The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus
By: Andrew Klavan
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Follow Andrew Klavan to a deeper, richer understanding of the words of Jesus. Andrew Klavan believe… read more
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18. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
By: Richard Rohr
4.45
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more
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19. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
By: Emmanuel Acho
4.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more
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20. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.94
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how… read more
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"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as “conversion."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
21. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
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22. To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People
By: Noah Feldman
4.24
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A leading thinker’s witty, wide-ranging journey to understanding what it means to be a Jew today. … read more
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23. Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity
By: Carl R. Trueman
4.41
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Carl Trueman Analyzes How Ancient Creeds and Confessions Protect and Promote Biblical Christianity … read more
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24. Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
By: Michael B. Curry
4.48
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Walk the path of love with one of the warmest, most beloved spiritual leaders of our time, and lear… read more
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25. The Lost World of the Torah: Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context
By: John H. Walton
3.98
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Our handling of what we call biblical law veers between controversy and neglect. On the one han… read more
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26. Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
By: Shai Held
4.57
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A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish … read more
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27. The Exodus
By: Richard Elliott Friedman
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Exodus has become a core tradition of Western civilization. Millions read it, retell it, and c… read more
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"We have seen a movement from many deities to two to one. Whether you take that movement to be fact, mythology, or theology, it is the story of how we got to where most (Western) religions are now. An…"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
"We all know that there are harsh passages toward others in the Bible as well: dispossess the Canaanites, destroy Jericho, etc. But, as I said earlier, the evidence on the ground indicates that most o…"-Richard Elliott Friedman, The Exodus
28. 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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29. 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
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"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
30. Walk in Love: Episcopal Beliefs and Practices
By: Scott Gunn
4.47
Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition
Take a journey through The Book of Common Prayer, the Christian life, and basic beliefs of our fait… read more
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"It's simple, but brilliant. Instead of just mumbling "I'm sorry," a real apology includes naming clearly what you did, reflecting on why it was wrong, promising to change the behavior in the future, …"-Scott Gunn, Walk in Love: Episcopal Beliefs and Practices
