BOOK REVIEWS
Excerpts from reviews
FULL REVIEWS
►Today's
Librarian
►Library
Journal
►NY
Press (includes an interview)
►Florence
SC News (Includes brief interview)
►Star
Press
►Spokesman
Review
►Aniston
Star
Excerpts from
various reviews
►
New
York Press
Book Review and Interview.
"The lesson, basically, is
to understand the book as a product of its times, attempting to explain what
everybody understood to be history from a particular point of view,"
Greenberg says. "It’s not a divinely inspired book. There are too many
contradictions. But it’s a book that contains a lot of information about
where we come from, when you read it properly."
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Read the full interview.
► The topic may be controversial but the
content is fascinating and thought provoking. . . . This
riveting and
intelligent study has relevance to a wide audience of biblical scholars.
Today's Librarian.
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Recommended for larger religious
collections. - Library Journal.
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Rated “Must Read.” - Today's Books.
► It’s a
riveting read that’s definitely not
for the biblically faint of heart.
(Includes brief interview.) - Florence, SC News.
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► This book
will probably either strengthen
your faith or cast it into doubt. Just remember, there’s a reason its called
faith. At any rate, it will make for lively dinner table discussions. -
Spokesman Review.
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► He said books like101 Myths strike at the
heart of Christians who take the Bible as a literal, inspired word from God.
(Religious leader quoted in the book review.) - Star Press.
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► In this
controversial new book, author Gary
Greenberg offers insight into the meaning, origin and accuracy of stories
from the Old Testament. - Jewish Transcript.
► Greenberg has obviously used
considerable research to find myths
and legends that could parallel biblical episodes . . . some of his
comparisons create interesting reading.
- The Aniston Star.
► Explores how the myths and legends of
neighboring cultures are built into the foundations of the modern
monotheistic religions. He describes a long and continuous relationship
between ancient Israel and Egypt. - Book News.
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This eye-opening book will startle some and inflame others, but should
interest anyone who dares to read and evaluate its contents. . . .In
conclusion, this book is stimulating
to say the least. If nothing more, it will arouse one's interest in how the
Bible and similar books were actually written. The
book is well laid out and easy to read. Highly recommended. -
The Journal of Religion and Psychical Research
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Greenberg examines Old Testament stories, reveals their contradictions and
impossibilities, demonstrates how the Bible may not be -- in fact, almost
certainly cannot be -- a literal record of history. It is, he argues, a
document shaped by its creators, based in myth and folklore, and many of its
most familiar events may not have happened. Noah's Ark, for example,
probably didn't land on Mount Ararat; Sodom
and Gomorrah did not actually exist; and it was King David's bodyguard, not
David himself, who slew the giant Goliath. An
illuminating reappraisal of the Bible.
– David
Pitt,
www.bookloons.com.
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