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The Old Testament
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The Magi of nativity scenes are romanticized as well-dressed wisemen bringing gifts to Jesus. Traditional Chrstians tell of a miraculous star that guided exotic kings from Persia, India, and Africa. Academics dismiss both accounts as no more than a pious legend. Who is right? In The Mystery of the Magi, Dwight Longenecker shows that all sides are wrong and the Magi were diplomats from Petra, the capital of the Nabatean kingdom of Arabia.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Fascinating Deep Dive into the Story of the Magi
- De Pastor Ryan en 08-06-18
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A History of Judaism
- De: Martin Goodman
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 23 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and it has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse forms and beliefs it has embodied over the course of more than three millennia. A History of Judaism provides the first truly comprehensive look in one volume at how this great religion came to be, how it has evolved from one age to the next, and how its various strains, sects, and traditions have related to each other.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not easy to follow.
- De Eric en 03-12-19
De: Martin Goodman
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Creating Christ
- How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity
- De: James S. Valliant, C. W. Fahy
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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This explosive work of history unearths clues that finally demonstrate the truth about one of the world's great religions: that it was born out of the conflict between the Romans and messianic Jews who fought a bitter war with each other during the first century. The Romans employed a tactic they routinely used to conquer and absorb other nations: they grafted their imperial rule onto the religion of the conquered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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life is one big lie
- De Anonymous User en 12-25-19
De: James S. Valliant, y otros
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The Lost Gospel
- Decoding the Ancient Text That Reveals Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene
- De: Simcha Jacobovici, Barrie Wilson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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Waiting to be rediscovered in the British Library is an ancient manuscript of the early Church, copied by an anonymous monk. The manuscript is at least 1,450 years old, possibly dating to the first century, Jesus' lifetime. And now, The Lost Gospel provides the first-ever translation from Syriac into English of this unique document that tells the inside story of Jesus' social, family, and political life. The Lost Gospel takes listeners on an unparalleled historical adventure through a paradigm-shifting manuscript.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very well-crafted but uses lot of sketchy material
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The Ten Lost Tribes
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In the eighth century BCE, one of the most important provinces within the Assyrian Empire was Samaria. Also known as Israel, Samaria repeatedly rebelled against their Assyrian overlords, but in 722, the Assyrians overran Samaria once and for all, killing countless numbers and sending most of the rest of its inhabitants into forced exile.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Eh.
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The Sumerians
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- De: Charles River Editors
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When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform tablets in Iraq in the late 19th century, they were confronted with a language and a people who were at the time only scarcely known to even the most knowledgeable scholars of ancient Mesopotamia: the Sumerians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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love these
- De amy en 12-14-16
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Odin: The Origins, History and Evolution of the Norse God
- De: Jesse Harasta, Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Anthony R. Schlotzhauer
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
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A one-eyed old man, with a gray cloak and a wide-brimmed hat leaning on a staff. A wanderer who appears when least expected, bringing triumph or doom. The god of prophecy, poetry and fate. A shape changer. A sorcerer. The god Odin cuts a dramatic figure in Norse mythology and is still a part of the popular imagination. He is the inspiration for figures like J.R.R. Tolkien's Gandalf the Grey, and he still appears in modern literature as varied as Marvel Comics and Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected but enjoyable nontheless
- De Goose en 07-13-15
De: Jesse Harasta, y otros
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The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography
- Lives of the Great Religious Books
- De: John J. Collins
- Narrado por: Mark Moseley
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran, in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination - and more controversy - than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time of Jesus, and they continue to inspire veneration and conspiracy theories to this day. John Collins tells the story of the bitter conflicts that have swirled around the scrolls since their startling discovery, and sheds light on their true significance for Jewish and Christian history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Great Biography"
- De Marilyn Lame' en 12-04-14
De: John J. Collins
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The Twelfth Planet
- Book 1 of the Earth Chronicles
- De: Zecharia Sitchin
- Narrado por: Bill Jenkins
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Do you reject both evolution and creationism? The product of 30 years of intensive research, The Twelfth Planet argues persuasively that humanity sprang from extraterrestrial forebears.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very, VERY abridged!
- De Jill en 06-17-11
De: Zecharia Sitchin
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The Great Shift
- Encountering God in Biblical Times
- De: James L. Kugel
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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Why does the Bible depict a world in which humans, with surprising regularity, encounter the divine - wrestling an angel, addressing a burning bush, issuing forth prophecy without any choice in the matter? These stories spoke very differently to their original audience than they do to us, and they reflect a radically distinct understanding of reality and the human mind. Yet over the course of the thousand-year biblical era, encounters with God changed dramatically.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Changing Conceptions of God and the Self
- De DJ en 10-27-22
De: James L. Kugel
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The Jesus Dynasty
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- De: James D. Tabor
- Narrado por: James D. Tabor
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Based on a careful analysis of the earliest Christian documents and recent archaeological discoveries, The Jesus Dynasty offers a bold new interpretation of the life of Jesus and the origins of Christianity. The story is surprising, controversial, and exciting as only a long-lost history can be when it is at last recovered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Provocative book
- De Dan en 08-27-06
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When God Spoke Greek
- The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible
- De: Timothy Michael Law
- Narrado por: Stephen McLaughlin
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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The Septuagint, the name given to the translation of the Hebrew scriptures between the third century BC and the second century AD, played a central role in the Bible's history. Many of the Hebrew scriptures were still evolving when they were translated into Greek, and these Greek translations, along with several new Greek writings, became Holy Scripture in the early Church. Yet gradually the Septuagint lost its place at the heart of Western Christianity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A popular & much-needed intro to the Septuagint
- De Jacobus en 06-14-14
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When Christians Were Jews
- The First Generation
- De: Paula Fredriksen
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers the question of how Jewish missionaries ended up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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nothing to see here, nothing to read here
- De Anonymous User en 12-10-18
De: Paula Fredriksen
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How God Became God
- What Scholars Are Really Saying About God and the Bible
- De: Richard M. Smoley
- Narrado por: Richard M. Smoley
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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This epic, thrilling journey through Bible scholarship and ancient religion shows how much of Scripture is historically false - yet the ancient writings also resound with theologies that crisscrossed the primeval world and that direct us today toward a deep, authentic inner experience of the truly sacred.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just Okay.
- De Thomas en 10-28-21
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit disappointing.
- De MarshallP1991 en 12-16-21
De: Graham Priest