1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : Tor Dennis
Release : 2009
Genre : Bible stories, English
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 724/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Book of Books by : Tor Dennis
Download or read book The Book of Books written by Tor Dennis. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Oxford: Lion, 2003.
Author : Erich S. Gruen
Release : 2024-07-25
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 183/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Scriptural Tales Retold by : Erich S. Gruen
Download or read book Scriptural Tales Retold written by Erich S. Gruen. This book was released on 2024-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erich S. Gruen investigates a remarkable phenomenon in religious and literary history: the freedom with which Jewish writers in antiquity retold and recast, sometimes distorted or bypassed, biblical narratives that ostensibly had the status of sacred texts. Gruen asks the question of what prompted such tampering with tales that carried divine authority, and what implications this widespread practice of liberal revising had for attitudes toward the sacrality of the scriptures in general. Gruen focuses upon writings of the Second Temple period, an era of the deep integration of Jewish history and the Greco-Roman world. Gruen brings to the task the training of a classicist and ancient historian rather than that of a biblical textual critic or a rabbinics scholar, not pursuing the commentaries of the later rabbis with their very different approaches, methods, and goals. As such, Gruen's emphasis rests upon narrative rather than legal matters, the haggadic rather than the halakhic. The former lends itself most readily to the creative instincts of the re-tellers.
Author : Steve Jones
Release : 2013-05-07
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 648/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Serpent's Promise by : Steve Jones
Download or read book The Serpent's Promise written by Steve Jones. This book was released on 2013-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique contribution to the God/religion debate: a scientific take on the Bible that doesn't take sides. Many of the subjects studied by physicists or by biologists are found in the texts of the world's religions: the origins of the universe, of life and of mankind; fate, sex, age and death; and the prospects of eternal life or of fiery doom. The Bible is a handbook for understanding Nature and, in its own way, it succeeds. As a factual account, of course, it is out of date, but many of its statements can be rephrased in modern terms. Distinguished geneticist Steve Jones has done that: written a rivetingly accessible work on recent advances in our understanding of ourselves, using the Bible as a framework. His narrative is structured around the Good Book's grand themes, from Genesis to Revelations, and weaves a series of unexpected facts into a coherent whole. The struggle of rationalism with its opposite has, after decades of torpor, returned to centre stage. Polemics against and in favour of religion and atheism fill the shelves. Instead of adding to that pile, Steve Jones stands back and take a fresh look at that issue in a volume that is not an attack or a defence but which explores scriptural motifs--Creation, the Garden of Eden, original sin, the Exodus, virgin birth, the Resurrection, and the Last Judgment--using the methods and results of the latest scientific research. It is a remarkably quick jump, shows Professor Jones, from Adam to astrophysics. Although some of the questions raised are beyond the capabilities of science, at least a scientist can ask them in a new way. Steve Jones shows there is a better route to understanding the universe than through doctrine.
Author : DaySpring
Release : 2010-11-02
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 332/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Really Woolly Bible Stories by : DaySpring
Download or read book Really Woolly Bible Stories written by DaySpring. This book was released on 2010-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces noted Bible stories, including those of the Creation, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Samson, David, Daniel, Jonah, the Nativity and other events from the life of Jesus, the parable of the Good Samaritan, and the Resurrection. On board pages.
Author : Nathan Roberts
Release : 2019-09-10
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 301/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Deserted by : Nathan Roberts
Download or read book Deserted written by Nathan Roberts. This book was released on 2019-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would the earliest stories of the Bible be like without an angry God smiting humans with floods, fire, frogs, and brimstone? They might become the story of a mother surviving a snake bite and a dangerous pregnancy. Architects and dreamers building towers and boats to save themselves from the harsh desert. A doctor who obsessively cleans. Young gay lovers seeking refuge in the sanctuary cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Estranged brothers planning ten terrorist attacks to free their people from slavery. Without an angry God, the Bible might become a fictional collection of stories about deeply human men, women, and children from a small nomadic tribe deserted in an ancient Hebrew desert.
