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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,415 ratings — published 2005
The Works of Josephus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,540 ratings — published 100
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,429 ratings — published 2001
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,727 ratings — published 2014
Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,788 ratings — published 2011
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,019 ratings — published 2019
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,094 ratings — published 2009
Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History & Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,078 ratings — published 2006
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 72,853 ratings — published 2013
Who Wrote the Bible? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 6,407 ratings — published 1987
Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible's Harlot Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 483 ratings — published 2007
The Red Tent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 631,198 ratings — published 1997
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,115 ratings — published
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,906 ratings — published 2006
Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 793 ratings — published 2006
The Bible as History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.72 — 674 ratings — published 1955
Return to Sodom & Gomorrah (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 212 ratings — published 1994
A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 52,534 ratings — published 1993
Sarah (Canaan, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 9,988 ratings — published 2003
The Hebrew Bible and History: Critical Readings (T&T Clark Critical Readings in Biblical Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 112 ratings — published 2013
The Other Side of the Judeo-Christian History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.85 — 61 ratings — published 2011
Ancient Post-Flood History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 341 ratings — published 2010
Exodus (Bible, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,887 ratings — published -500
Genesis (Bible, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,946 ratings — published -800
Judges ESV (Bible, #7)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,520 ratings — published -500
Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 35 ratings — published 2005
Crucifixion: In the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross (Facets)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 305 ratings — published 1977
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,943 ratings — published 2020
Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,295 ratings — published 2012
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,195 ratings — published 2002
The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 721 ratings — published 2005
The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance For Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity – A Historical Guide to the Ancient Manuscripts (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 159 ratings — published 2002
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,119 ratings — published 2003
The Books of Enoch (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,812 ratings — published -300
Paul: A Biography (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,395 ratings — published 2018
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That’s Great News (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,068 ratings — published 2019
Between the Testaments: From Malachi to Matthew (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 91 ratings — published 2002
The Book of Enoch (Ethiopian)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,841 ratings — published -300
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,665 ratings — published 2001
The Unseen Realm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,797 ratings — published 2015
The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family and the Birth of Christianity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,109 ratings — published 2006
The Exodus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 659 ratings — published 2017
In Search of the Mountain of God: The Discovery of the Real Mt. Sinai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 90 ratings — published 2000
The Jester (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 21,171 ratings — published 2003
God in Translation: Deities in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Biblical World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 22 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Chord (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 21,962 ratings — published 2015
The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 85 ratings — published 2013
On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 622 ratings — published 2014
Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as biblical-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 347 ratings — published 2012
“For Genesis 1, therefore, to proclaim that Israel's God is the one true God who created the sun, moon, stars, sea creatures, and all the animals would have been a countercultural and subversive message. Genesis would be highlighting how the very gods that the pagans worship are actually not deities at all, but merely creatures of Israel's God, the one and only true God!”
― The Real Story: Understanding the Big Picture of the Bible
― The Real Story: Understanding the Big Picture of the Bible
“Mary Magdalene is the madwoman - angry mad - in Christianity’s attic. She was hidden there because of an open and not fully appreciated secret, and its implications, at Christianity’s core: that the male disciples fled and the women did not.”
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