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…
Want to Read $ 12.99"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 society utterly unlike our own. Those were the terms on which I wanted to encounter him; not as a distant and abstract being, but as the product of a particular culture, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then; a god shaped by their own physical circumstances, their own view of the world—and their own imaginations. Sitting in that lecture hall, it seemed to me that this potent figure had somehow been theorized away and replaced by the abstract being with whom we are more familiar today (…)."-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy
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1. Who Wrote the Bible?
By: Richard Elliott Friedman
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The contemporary classic The New York Times Book Review called "a thought-provoking [and] perceptiv… read more
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- history
- theology
- christianity
- judaism
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
"Every biblical story reflects something that mattered to its author. Whenever we figure out what it was and why it mattered, we move a step closer to knowing who wrote a part of the Bible."-Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible?
2. Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
By: Richard Dawkins , Dan Barker , Dan Barker
3.97
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
One man shares the story of his transformation from evangelical Christian to atheist and examines t… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
"Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" …"-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
"But we exist now. We are caring, intelligent animals and can treasure our brief lives. Why is eternal better than temporal, or supernatural "higher" than natural? Doesn't rarity increase value? God i…"-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
"Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden wo…"-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
"People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, 'Well, are you a Republican or an A…"-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
3. On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt
By: Richard C. Carrier
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The assumption that Jesus existed as a historical person has occasionally been questioned in the co… read more
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- history
- christianity
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
4. 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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- history
- theology
- christianity
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
5. Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
By: Ara Norenzayan
3.32
Format: 344 pages, ebook
How did human societies scale up from tight-knit groups of hunter-gatherers to the large, anonymous… read more
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- history
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- anthropology
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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- history
- christianity
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
7. 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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8. Forged: Writing in the Name of God
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.50
Format: None pages,
s/t: Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Timesbestse… read more
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9. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this highly accessible discussion, Bart Ehrman examines the most recent textual and archaeologic… read more
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10. The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (The Biblical Resource Series)
By: Patrick D. Miller , None
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Foreword by Patrick D. Miller In this remarkable, acclaimed history of the development of monotheis… read more
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11. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
3.89
Format: None pages,
The author of The Reformationreturns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time. Once… read more
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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. 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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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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- history
- christianity
- judaism
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- mythology
15. Mi negro pasado (Como agua para chocolate, #3)
By: Laura Esquivel
3.48
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Mi negro pasado, continuación de Como agua para chocolate, es una defensa de la independencia femen… read more
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- audiobook
16. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
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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- audiobook
- history
- theology
- christianity
- judaism
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- mythology
- anthropology
"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. Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.06
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping ques… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- theology
- christianity
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- anthropology
"It is impossible to overrate the importance of Homer on the culture and religion of ancient Greece. It is not that the Iliad and the Odyssey were “the Bible"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The problem with material remains is that they are silent: they don't provide their own interpretations. And that means various interpretations are possible."-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while l…"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The fear of death in antiquity differed from the terrors of torment or horrors of actual nonexistence experienced by so many in the West today. It was instead the dread of losing out on everything a …"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
19. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
- audiobook
20. A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
By: Johannes Krause
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A radical retelling of humanity's restless, genetically mingled history based on the revolutionary … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- anthropology
21. That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
By: David Bentley Hart
4.26
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Chri… read more
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- theology
- christianity
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"As far as I am concerned, anyone who hopes for the universal reconciliation of all creatures with God must already believe that this would be the best possible ending to the Christian story; and such…"-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
"Really, on the whole, Christians rarely pay particularly close attention to what the Bible actually says, for the simple reason that the texts defy synthesis in a canon of exact doctrines, and yet mo…"-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
22. The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
By: Sverker Johansson
3.95
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistic… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- anthropology
- audiobook
"I discovered something that was more exciting than physics: language."-Sverker Johansson, The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
"It is possible, in principle, that language suddenly appeared fully formed during human evolution without any gradual or intermediate forms. That notion, a linguistic Big Bang, has been championed by…"-Sverker Johansson, The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk
23. 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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- history
- theology
- christianity
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Bone Chests
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history o… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
25. Red Star Over the Third World
By: Vijay Prashad
4.23
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Like the brilliant sun, the October Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
26. A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
By: John Barton
4.09
Format: 613 pages, Hardcover
A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation: how it came to be written, how its contents wer… read more
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- theology
- christianity
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- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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- audiobook
28. 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
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- theology
- christianity
- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- mythology
29. 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
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- theology
- christianity
- religion
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. 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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