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Book of Genesis: A Biography by Ronald Hendel; Daren Magee (Other)
Category: No Category | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
An essential biography of one of the Bible's most influential booksDuring its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to important claims about God and humanity in Judaism and Christianity, and it plays a central role in contemporary debates about science, politics, and human rights. ...Show more
Josephus's the Jewish War - A Biography by Martin Goodman
Category: History | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. Martin Goodman describes the life of this book, from its com ...Show more
THE I CHING A BIOGRAPHY by SMITH
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medic ...Show more
The Book of Mormon - A Biography by Paul C. Gutjahr
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
Late one night in 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr., was reportedly visited in his family's farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas' ancient peoples, and which would restore the p ...Show more
The Talmud["A Biography"] by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Category: History | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
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