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1.) Joseph's Bones Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible, $12.00

It's almost impossible to think of the Bible as anything other than the expression of the religious traditions that view it as Holy Scripture. Yet given that vital parts of it were written as much as a thousand years before the emergence of rabbinic Judaism and the birth of Christianity, there is no obvious reason why this should be true. In his groundbreaking new book, "Joseph's Bones: Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind" in the Bible, philosopher Jerome Segal offers a fresh and vigorous reexamination of the oldest part of the Bible. In "Joseph's Bones," Segal asks you to imagine that you know nothing about Judaism or Christianity and one day pick up something called "The Hexateuch" (the first six books of the Bible). How would you understand the story it recounts? Who is God? And who are the Israelites? And perhaps most important, what is the relationship between God and humanity? Segal maintains that if we approach the Bible without preconceptions, we will find someth...

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Buy Joseph's Bones Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible, $12.00