How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths (Synkrisis)
By: M. David Litwa
4.14
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A compelling comparison of the gospels and Greco-Roman mythology which shows that the gospels were …
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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. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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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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4. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
5. The Dhammapada
By: Anonymous , Thich Nhat Hanh , None , None
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: dhmmpd Dhammapada; Sanskrit: dhrmpd Dharmapada) is a collection of s… read more
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6. The Jewish Gospels
By: Jack Miles , Daniel Boyarin
3.50
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
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7. 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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8. 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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9. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.74
Format: 646 pages,
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10. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
11. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
12. 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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"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
13. 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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14. 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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15. The Book of Jubilees
By: Anonymous
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The Book of Jubileestranslated by R. H. CharlesThe Book of Jubilees, or, as it is sometimes called,… read more
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16. When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation
By: Paula Fredriksen
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars … read more
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17. Why Religion?: A Personal Story
By: Elaine Pagels
3.97
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do … read more
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"Times of mourning displace us from ordinary life."-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story
"I’d chosen Harvard because it was a secular university, where I wouldn’t be bombarded with church dogma."-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story
"Christmas lights, again, piercing like knives. The spirit of that season was never more remote than during those dark December days."-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story
"I knew that I could not possibly teach; the energy and clarity that teaching requires, which I'd always taken for granted, were gone."-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story
18. A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles
By: Matthew Thiessen
4.32
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
What was the apostle Paul's relationship to Judaism? How did he view the Jewish law? How did he und… read more
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19. 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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20. The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus
By: Dale C. Allison Jr.
4.07
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Informally presents and evaluates complex--sometimes troubling--issues in scholarly discussion of J… read more
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21. Sublunar
By: Harald Voetmann
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world’s most illustrious noseless man … read more
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22. How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths (Synkrisis)
By: M. David Litwa
4.14
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A compelling comparison of the gospels and Greco-Roman mythology which shows that the gospels were … read more
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