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Twilight in Babylon Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A Treasure Trove of Historical FactIn this fourth book of her trilogy the no less improbable Suzanne Frank leads us in her delightfully non-linear way to Sumer where we witness twilight for Chloe and Cheftu as civilization is just dawning.Some may be saddened at this last novel but the time travelling...

Shantaram Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It's just not fair. Gregory David Roberts is one of the best writers of our time, and I do not make that statement lightly. I am usually a 350-400 page novel-reader -- I like to get in and get out. But after reading the first paragraph (I dare you to read it and NOT be interested in seeing where he goes),...

Pain and Polemic: Anti-Judaism in the Gospels (Stimulus Books) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Smiga makes his case after careful preparation and a thorough establishment of fact. His analysis, however, is tentative and almost reluctant. As a result, the conclusion of this text is anti-climactic and without real appeal.Click Here to see more reviews about: Pain and Polemic: Anti-Judaism in the...

Whose Word is it?: The Story Behind Who Changed The New Testament and Why Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I should declare an interest as a militant atheist but having said that, the author of this book certainly started off as a devout christian. This therefore is no Dawkins/Hitchens/Harris-type rant but rather a well laid out historical account of how the new testament came to take its present form. Haven't...

Jesus as Teacher (Understanding Jesus Today) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The great Dr. Pheme Perkins, professor of Theology at the renowned Jesuit Boston College, has written here a wonderful summation of the role of Jesus as teacher, the methods and means of conveying his message of God's Love, including parables, similes, puns and metaphor, and a syllabus of his subject...

The Woman Who Would Be Pharaoh: A Novel of Ancient Egypt Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am appalled by this book. I have never in all my years read a book so distasteful. I want to warn anyone who thinks this is a historical fiction book. I think it should be sold as erotica or in that category. I am not saying it doesn't have historical facts, however it has incest and so many sex scenes...

The Cell - Inside the 9/11 Plot and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop it. Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Up front let me apologize for being emotional in this review, as this true account is appalling in what should have been. The book describes the evolution of the 1990s through 9/11 of Bin Laden and the Al Queda that will haunt readers forever. The authors tie events together that show the magnitude of...

Chronicle of a Pharaoh: The Intimate Life of Amenhotep III Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It is rather surprising that a book-length biography of a king who lived three thousand years ago could be accomplished. Naturally, there are few amusing anecdotes or personal recollections to draw on, and it is not possible to come up with even a biographer's speculations about how the character of...

Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses The Great Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Although the original edition of Montet's book goes back to the '50, I consider that it still holds good for anyone interested in getting a deep insight of everyday life in Pharaonic Egypt under the reign of Ramesses Ii, especially now that the greatest king of Egypt jumped back to popularity after the...

The Bobbio Missal: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I recently purchased this book and would like to share that this book makes for an excellent introduction cum scholarly work on a missal that reveals a great deal of late 7th/8th century monastic life. The book comprises of several papers from a conference held on the Continent and each paper explores...

The World Beneath Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Body dysmorphic, both prematurely cynical and angst-riddled, Sophie daily endures the mindless chatter of her mother, Sandy, appalled by the prospect of genetically flabby arms in her own future. Sandy and Rich split shortly after her birth fifteen years ago, their environmental activism on behalf of...

Bureaucracy and the State in Early China: Governing the Western Zhou Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Li Feng's 'Bureaucracy and the State in Early China' (2009) is a fantastic book on the Western Zhou period (1046 - 771 BCE) government. This study is based almost solely on bronze inscriptions of the period for which he argues convincingly that they CAN be used as primary source material for the nature...

Memoirs of Pontius Pilate: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Although it is a work of fiction, "Memoirs of Pontius Pilate" comes close to deserving a place in the history section. Much of this well-researched book is devoted to Pilate's own biography of Jesus; nevertheless, there is enough supplementary material here to leave the reader a bit more knowledgeable...

Texts from the Pyramid Age (Writings from the Ancient World) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a great source for anyone that wishes to know in there own words the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom from the 3rd to the 6th Dynasties the ages when Egypt built pyramids for its kings. You will find translations of inscriptions from the lowly laborer fot the king to the King himself. There...

What's in the Word: Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Anyone interested in biblical studies and ancient history would find these essays fascinating reading.Witherington insists it is time for a "paradigm shift" in NT studies. Various disciplines have shown that "ancient texts are not really texts in the modern sense at all--they are surrogates for oral...

Preaching Mark in Two Voices Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Great book, gentlemen! I had always rushed through Mark (maybe it was his writing style:) and missed most of the theology that was packed in this Gospel. Thanks for bringing so much of Mark's message to light. Norm MinnickLouisville, KYClick Here to see more reviews about: Preaching Mark in Two VoicesBlount...

Evil In Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Evil in Modern Thought" is a well-written and thought-provoking review of Western philosophy's struggles with the problem of Evil. Susan Neiman views this problem "as the guiding force of modern thought." Recognizing the controversiality of her contention she sub-titles her book, "An Alternative History...