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Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography by John J. Collins; Daren Magee (Other)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
Unraveling the controversies surrounding the Dead Sea ScrollsSince they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essen ...Show more
Josephus's the Jewish War - A Biography by Martin Goodman
Category: Judaica | 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
Passover Haggadah - A Biography by Vanessa L. Ochs
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
The life and times of a treasured book read by generations of Jewish families at the seder table Every year at Passover, Jews around the world gather for the seder, a festive meal where family and friends come together to sing, pray, and enjoy traditional food while retelling the biblical story of the ...Show more
THE I CHING A BIOGRAPHY by SMITH
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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 Job - A Biography by Mark Larrimore; Daren Magee (Other)
Category: Spirituality | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
The life and times of this iconic and enduring biblical bookThe Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most obscure and paradoxical books, one that defies interpretation even ...Show more
The Book of Mormon - A Biography by Paul C. Gutjahr
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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; Daren Magee (Other)
Category: Spirituality | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spirituality The Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter ...Show more
The Talmud["A Biography"] by Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Category: History | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography by David Gordon White; Daren Magee (Other)
Category: Personal Development | Series: Lives of Great Religious Bks.
The rise, fall, and modern resurgence of an enigmatic book revered by yoga enthusiasts around the worldConsisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide t ...Show more
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