The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Controversial Scholar, a Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, and the Fierce Debate over Its Authenticity
By: Geoffrey S. Smith
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking account of the Secret Gospel of Mark, one of the most hotly debated documents in C…
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1. The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics
By: Elaine Pagels
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the Nat… read more
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2. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
By: Mark Edward Lewis
3.82
Format: None pages,
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3. The Gnostic Gospels
By: Elaine Pagels
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminou… read more
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4. The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
By: Candida R. Moss
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the e… read more
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5. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.95
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Timesbestseller Misquoting Jesusleft off, Jesu… read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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9. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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10. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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11. 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
12. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (The Princeton History of the Ancient World)
By: Kyle Harper
4.21
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental rete… read more
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13. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
14. 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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15. Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
By: Ariel Sabar
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Ariel Sabar, the gripping true story of a se… read more
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16. The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Controversial Scholar, a Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, and the Fierce Debate over Its Authenticity
By: Geoffrey S. Smith
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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