Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity
By: Peter Schäfer
4.07
Format: 192 pages, ebook
A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheism Contrary to pop…
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1. Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
By: N.T. Wright
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today, Widely respected Bible and Jesu… read more
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"Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going."-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
"The "word" did not "offer itself" in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion, any more than Caesar's heralds would have said, "If you'd like a new kind of imperial experience, you might like to try giving alle…"-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
"Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is t…"-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
"The gospel by which individuals come to personal faith, and so to that radical transformation of life spoken of so often in the new Testament, is the personalizing of the larger challenge just mentio…"-N.T. Wright, Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
2. The Gay Science
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.11
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more
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3. An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
By: John of Damascus
4.01
Format: 30 pages,
A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music,… read more
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4. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell
3.37
Format: None pages,
Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more
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5. The Unseen Realm
By: Michael S. Heiser
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In The Unseen Realm, Dr. Michael Heiser examines the ancient context of Scripture, explaining how i… read more
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6. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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8. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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9. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
10. The Great Angel: A Study of Israel's Second God
By: Margaret Barker
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
What did "Son of God," "Messiah," and "Lord," mean to the first Christians when they used these wor… read more
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11. The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict
By: William T. Cavanaugh
4.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wis… read more
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12. Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible schola… read more
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13. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah
By: Brant Pitre
4.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Brant Pitre is one of the most compelling theological writers on the scene today." - Bishop Robert… read more
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14. 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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15. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
16. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By: Barbara Demick
4.45
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more
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"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
17. 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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- theology
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"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
18. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
By: N.T. Wright
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their pr… read more
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19. The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History
By: Dale C. Allison Jr.
4.53
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The earliest traditions around the narrative of Jesus' resurrection are considered in this landmark… read more
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- theology
20. 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
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- theology
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- spirituality
21. Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels' Portrayal of Ritual Impurity Within First-Century Judaism
By: Matthew Thiessen
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Although most people acknowledge that Jesus was a first-century Jew, interpreters of the Gospels of… read more
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22. Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness
By: Michael S. Heiser
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
2020 Center for Biblical Studies Finalist for Biblical Theology The truth about demons is far stran… read more
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23. You Are Gods: On Nature and Supernature
By: David Bentley Hart
4.14
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
David Bentley Hart offers an intense and thorough reflection upon the issue of the supernatural in … read more
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24. The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture
By: Robyn Faith Walsh
4.26
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spo… read more
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- history
25. Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History
By: Dale C. Allison Jr.
4.48
Format: 588 pages, Hardcover
What did Jesus think of himself? How did he face death? What were his expectations of the future? I… read more
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- theology
26. An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination
By: Walter Brueggemann
4.09
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
In this book Walter Brueggemann, America's premier biblical theologian, introduces the reader to th… read more
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- christianity
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- religion
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"In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become both more human and more humane. We are constantly craf…"-Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination
27. Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports About Christianity & Gnosticism
By: Lynn Segal
4.04
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
In this study of the rabbinic heretics who believed in Two Powers in Heaven , Alan Segal explores s… read more
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28. The Invention of the Inspired Text: Philological Windows on the Theopneustia of Scripture (The Library of New Testament Studies, 640)
By: John C. Poirier
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
John C. Poirier examines the “theopneustic” nature of the Scripture, as a response to the view that… read more
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29. Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity
By: Peter Schäfer
4.07
Format: 192 pages, ebook
A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheism Contrary to pop… read more
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- religion
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30. Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology: Reading the Biblical Text in Its Cultural and Literary Context
By: John H. Walton
3.67
Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition
Some people believe that a battle of cosmic proportions is raging as Satan and his demons seek to d… read more
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31. Roman Faith and Christian Faith: Pistis and Fides in the Early Roman Empire and Early Churches
By: Teresa Morgan
4.29
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
This study investigates why "faith" (pistis/fides) was so important to early Christians that the co… read more
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