Some books on the origins of the Bible and the development of ideas about it

Rosie Perera

These came up in my search for books on the history of ideas about God.

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Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought

A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture

Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

The Exodus: How it Happened and Why It Matters

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The Exodus: How it Happened and Why It Matters

Jim

Rosie

Thanks for the list. "The Exodus..." caught my attention and when I looked it up I was pleased to find Friedman wrote it. I enjoy getting insights from a Jewish scholar in his "Commentary on the Torah," so I bought "The Exodus..." Kindle version.

-Jim

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