The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
10 best books like The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (John Dominic Crossan): Islam: A Short History, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Who Wrote the Bible?, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
El Islam es, probablemente, la religión más incomprendida y malinterpretada de la modernidad. Una curiosa ignorancia prevalece en Occidentes desde las cruzadas, cuando empezó a cultivarse una visión distorsionada del Islam como una religión violenta e intolerante. Sin embargo, los imperios...
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0060859512 |
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity...
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060609176 |
Of the many recent books on the historical Jesus, none has explored what the latest biblical scholarship means for personal faith. Now, in Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg addresses the yearnings of those who want a fully contemporary faith that welcomes rather than oppresses our...
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0517223120 |
Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have shaped and altered the conception...
| Author | Richard Elliott Friedman |
| ISBN | 0060630353 |
The contemporary classic the New York Times Book Review called “a thought-provoking [and] perceptive guide,” Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard E. Friedman is a fascinating, intellectual, yet highly readable analysis and investigation into the authorship of the Old Testament. The author of Commentary...
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
| Author | Israel Finkelstein |
| ISBN | 0684869136 |
In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use significant archeological discoveries to provide historical information about biblical Israel and its neighbors.
In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel...
The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0679731180 |
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan's story...
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0195182499 |
The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine,...
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally
| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060609192 |
Many Christians mistakenly believe that their only choice is either to reconcile themselves to a fundamentalist reading of scripture (a "literal-factual" approach) or to simply reject the Bible as something that could bring meaning and value into their lives. In Reading the Bible Again for the First...
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
| Author | Elaine Pagels |
| ISBN | 0679722327 |
Deepens & refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us.
Acknowledgments
The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1-3
Introduction
"The Kingdom of God is at hand"
Christians against the Roman order
Gnostic...
As soon as it appeared, How to Read the Bible was recognized as a masterwork, “awesome, thrilling” (The New York Times), “wonderfully interesting, extremely well presented” (The Washington Post), and “a tour de force...a stunning narrative” (Publishers Weekly). Now in its tenth year...
| Author | Peter J. Gomes |
| ISBN | 0060088303 |
A very lively, excellent, and relevant booking on reading the Bible. It was written for readers across the spectrum - from those who are intimidated by it or curious, to those who may feel they know it rather well. Though this topic may seem prudishly boring, the author has a wonderful way of bringing both...
| Author | Burton L. Mack |
| ISBN | 0060653752 |
If you are a Christian and wavering in your faith, then this book may tip you over the edge. There are points the author raises that will challenge your beliefs and your understanding of many traditions that exist today. Q does not actually exist, but the contents have been reconstructed and is a collection...
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
In this highly accessible discussion, Bart Ehrman examines the most recent textual and archaeological sources for the life of Jesus, along with the history of first-century Palestine, drawing a fascinating portrait of the man and his teachings.
Ehrman shows us what historians have long...
When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome
| Author | Richard E. Rubenstein |
| ISBN | 0156013150 |
A thoroughly researched and vivid re-creation of one of the most critical periods in the history of Western religion
The life of Jesus, and the subsequent persecution of Christians during the Roman Empire, have come to define what many of us know about early Christianity. The fervent...
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.
The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
| Author | Diarmaid MacCulloch |
| ISBN | 0713998695 |
The author of The Reformation returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time. Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read--a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity...
