The Lost Book of Moses

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062206435
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lost Book of Moses by : Chanan Tigay

Download or read book The Lost Book of Moses written by Chanan Tigay and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man’s quest to find the oldest Bible scrolls in the world and uncover the story of the brilliant, doomed antiquarian accused of forging them. In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira—archaeological treasure hunter and inveterate social climber—showed up unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the oldest copy of the Bible in the world. But before the museum could pony up his £1 million asking price for the scrolls—which discovery called into question the divine authorship of the scriptures—Shapira’s nemesis, the French archaeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau, denounced the manuscripts, turning the public against him. Distraught over this humiliating public rebuke, Shapira fled to the Netherlands and committed suicide. Then, in 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Noting the similarities between these and Shapira’s scrolls, scholars made efforts to re-examine Shapira’s case, but it was too late: the primary piece of evidence, the parchment scrolls themselves had mysteriously vanished. Tigay, journalist and son of a renowned Biblical scholar, was galvanized by this peculiar story and this indecipherable man, and became determined to find the scrolls. He sets out on a quest that takes him to Australia, England, Holland, Germany where he meets Shapira’s still aggrieved descendants and Jerusalem where Shapira is still referred to in the present tense as a “Naughty boy”. He wades into museum storerooms, musty English attics, and even the Jordanian gorge where the scrolls were said to have been found all in a tireless effort to uncover the truth about the scrolls and about Shapira, himself. At once historical drama and modern-day mystery, The Lost Book of Moses explores the nineteenth-century disappearance of Shapira’s scrolls and Tigay's globetrotting hunt for the ancient manuscript. As it follows Tigay’s trail to the truth, the book brings to light a flamboyant, romantic, devious, and ultimately tragic personality in a story that vibrates with the suspense of a classic detective tale.

The Historical Moses Found

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Publisher : Saint Clair Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781935786986
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Book Synopsis The Historical Moses Found by : Barry Page

Download or read book The Historical Moses Found written by Barry Page and published by Saint Clair Publications. This book was released on 2016-11-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a presentation of modern Biblical scholarship from both Christian sources and Hebrew University of Jerusalem sources, combined with some unique ideas from the author. The historical Moses is revealed as the author of most of the book of Deuteronomy. He led the newly formed nation of Israel out of Egypt to receive the Ten Commandments and continued on to the climax of his life: the making of the Covenant of Nebo, a covenant between God and Israel. The covenant appears today as some six chapters in the extant book of Deuteronomy and stresses: [1] the love of God that should be felt by Israel in its new homeland and [2] pure monotheism, the belief in one God without myths, miracles, magic, angels, or animal sacrifice. There was no animal sacrifice under the leadership of Moses. Following the death of Moses and Joshua, the religious behaviour of Israel changed significantly, with the new nation adopting two animal sacrificial cults: the Popular Cult and the Aaronite Cult. The scribes of these cults wrote the first four books of the Hebrew Bible. An isolated tribe of Levi preserved the writings [Torah] of Moses and they are found today in a somewhat edited form, in the extant book of Deuteronomy. The Levites, during the Judges period were not, generally, involved in the surrounding animal sacrificial activity. The religion of Israel did not evolve over the Biblical era, but degenerated after the death of Moses and Joshua. The first four books in the Hebrew Bible include significant expressions of this degeneration. A book like this has not been written in the last 2000 years. For the Jewish people who read this book, they will be stunned as to how they have been misled. For the Christians who read this book, they will begin to understand the roots of monotheism.

The Catholic Encyclopedia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 946 pages
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The Bible and the Believer

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199863008
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bible and the Believer by : Marc Zvi Brettler

Download or read book The Bible and the Believer written by Marc Zvi Brettler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three leading biblical scholars from the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faiths show how a critical approach to the Bible can complement religious readings"--Page [2] of jacket.

The Christ Conspiracy

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Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935487280
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (354 download)

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Book Synopsis The Christ Conspiracy by : Acharya S.

Download or read book The Christ Conspiracy written by Acharya S. and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly controversial and explosive book, archaeologist, historian, mythologist and linguist Acharya S. marshals an enormous amount of startling evidence to demonstrate that Christianity and the story of Jesus Christ were created by members of various secret societies, mystery schools and religions in order to unify the Roman Empire under one state religion. In developing such a fabrication, this multinational cabal drew upon a multitude of myths and rituals that existed long before the Christian era, and reworked them for centuries into the religion passed down to us today. Contrary to popular belief, there was no single man who was at the genesis of Christianity; Jesus was many characters rolled into one. These characters personified the ubiquitous solar myth, and their exploits were well known, as reflected by such popular deities as Mithras, Heracles/Hercules, Dionysos and many others throughout the Roman Empire and beyond. The story of Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels is revealed to be nearly identical in detail to that of the earlier savior-gods Krishna and Horus, who for millennia preceding Christianity held great favor with the people. The Christ Conspiracy shows the Jesus character as not unique or original, not “divine revelation.” Christianity reinterprets the same extremely ancient body of knowledge that revolved around the celestial bodies and natural forces. The result of this myth making has been “The Greatest Conspiracy Ever Sold.” .

Moses and Monotheism

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Publisher : Leonardo Paolo Lovari
ISBN 13 : 8898301790
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (983 download)

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Book Synopsis Moses and Monotheism by : Sigmund Freud

Download or read book Moses and Monotheism written by Sigmund Freud and published by Leonardo Paolo Lovari. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. Freud contradicts the biblical story of Moses with his own retelling of events, claiming that Moses only led his close followers into freedom during an unstable period in Egyptian history after Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BCE) and that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion and later combined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian based on a volcanic God, Jahweh. Freud explains that years after the murder of Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud said that the guilt from the murder of Moses is inherited through the generations; this guilt then drives the Jews to religion to make them feel better.

Did God Have a Wife?

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Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802863949
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Did God Have a Wife? by : William G. Dever

Download or read book Did God Have a Wife? written by William G. Dever and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated, non-technical reconstruction of "folk religion" in ancient Israel is based largely on recent archaeological evidence, but also incorporates biblical texts where possible.

The Ark of the Covenant in Its Egyptian Context

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Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1683072677
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ark of the Covenant in Its Egyptian Context by : David Falk

Download or read book The Ark of the Covenant in Its Egyptian Context written by David Falk and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although much has been written about the Ark of the Covenant, few authors engage the wealth of information available that pertains to Egyptian material culture. [This] is the first book to explore the complex history of sacred ritual furniture in Egypt that predated the ark by hundreds of years. Within Egyptian culture, over four hundred examples of ritual furniture exist that shed light on the design and appearance of the ark. These examples form patterns that provide context for the Israelites' understanding of the ark at the time of its construction. That understanding would have been obvious to the Israelites of the time, but has since become obscured over the millennia. This groundbreaking book is the first to connect the Ark of the Covenant with the archaeology and chronology of ancient Egypt"--

The Quest for the Historical Israel

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Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589832779
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Book Synopsis The Quest for the Historical Israel by : Israel Finkelstein

Download or read book The Quest for the Historical Israel written by Israel Finkelstein and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging series of essays, originally given at the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism. The aim of the colloquium was to make available the results of recent archaeological work to a wider interested public, and specifically to bring science to bear on the early history of the Jewish people.

Genesis and the Moses Story

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066033
Total Pages : 471 pages
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Book Synopsis Genesis and the Moses Story by : Konrad Schmid

Download or read book Genesis and the Moses Story written by Konrad Schmid and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Konrad Schmid is a Swiss biblical scholar who belongs to a larger group of Continental researchers proposing new directions in the study of the Pentateuch. In this volume, a translation of his Erzväter und Exodus, Schmid argues that the ancestor tradition in Genesis and the Moses story in Exodus were two competing traditions of Israel’s origins and were not combined until the time of the Priestly Code—that is, the early Persian period. Schmid interacts with the long tradition of European scholarship on the Hebrew Bible but departs from some of the main tenets of the Documentary Hypothesis: he argues that the pre-Priestly material in both text blocks is literarily and theologically so divergent that their present linkage is more appropriately interpreted as the result of a secondary redaction than as thematic variation stemming from J’s oral prehistory. He dates Genesis–2 Kings to the Persian period and considers it a redactional work that, in its present shape, is a historical introduction to the message of future hope presented in the prophetic corpus of Isaiah-Malachi. Scholars and students alike will be pleased that this translation makes Schmid’s important work readily available in English, both for the contributions made by Schmid and the summary of continental interpretation that he presents. In this edition, some passages have been expanded or modified in order to clarify issues or to engage with more-recent scholarship. The notes and bibliography have also been updated. Dr. Schmid is Professor of Old Testament and Early Judaism at the University of Zürich.

The Moses Legacy

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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330412995
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis The Moses Legacy by : Graham Phillips

Download or read book The Moses Legacy written by Graham Phillips and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the default conversion keynote text and should be changed.

The History of Moses

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Moses by : Robert Louis Stevenson

Download or read book The History of Moses written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Israel's Ethnogenesis

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113494215X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis Israel's Ethnogenesis by : Avraham Faust

Download or read book Israel's Ethnogenesis written by Avraham Faust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner (for best semi-popular book) of the 2008 Irene Levi-Sala Prize for publications on the archaeology of Israel. The emergence of Israel in Canaan is a central topic in biblical/Syro-Palestinian archaeology. However, the archaeology of ancient Israel has rarely been subject to in-depth anthropological analysis until now. 'Israel's Ethnogenesis' offers an anthropological framework to the archaeological data and textual sources. Examining archaeological finds from thousands of excavations, the book presents a theoretical approach to Israel's ethnogenesis that draws on the work of recent critics. The book examines Israelite ethnicity - ranging from meat consumption, decorated and imported pottery, Israelite houses, circumcision, and hierarchy - and traces the complex ethnic negotiations that accompanied Israel's ethnogenesis. Israel's Ethnogenesis is unique in its contribution to the archaeology of ethnicity, offering an anthropological study that will be of interest to students of history, Israelite culture and religion, and the evolution of ethnic groups.

Family and Household Religion

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575068869
Total Pages : 333 pages
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Book Synopsis Family and Household Religion by : Rainer Albertz

Download or read book Family and Household Religion written by Rainer Albertz and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the most recent collective contribution of a group of biblical scholars and archaeologists who are engaged in an ongoing debate about the nature of family and household religion in ancient Israel and its environment. It is intended to complement the volume Household and Family Religion in Antiquity, edited by John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan, which grew out of a conference held at Brown University in 2005 on household and family religion in the ancient Mediterranean world, with an emphasis on cross-cultural comparison. Several meetings after the Brown conference carried the theme forward, and a fourth meeting at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in April 2009 emphasized theoretical and methodological challenges facing scholars of household and family religion (e.g., the conceptualization of family/household religion, the problem of identifying pertinent artifacts, and the difficulties inherent in using texts together with material evidence). This volume is a direct outgrowth of the Münster meeting. For both the meeting and the volume, the goal was to bring together a group of specialists in biblical studies, epigraphy, and archaeology who would utilize a variety of humanistic and social-scientific approaches to the data and would also be willing to engage in dialogue and debate; during the conference in Münster, there was much vigorous intellectual engagement. The essays published here reflect the energy of that conference and will contribute, both individually and collectively, to the advancement of our knowledge of Israelite family and household religion.

The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts

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Publisher : Brigham Young Univ Univ Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780842525893
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (258 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts by : Kent P. Jackson

Download or read book The Book of Moses and the Joseph Smith Translation Manuscripts written by Kent P. Jackson and published by Brigham Young Univ Univ Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed look at the Book of Moses in the Latter-day Saint scriptures as well as discussion of how it fits in whith the Joseph Smith Translation manuscripts.

Moses the Egyptian

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020308
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Moses the Egyptian by : Jan Assmann

Download or read book Moses the Egyptian written by Jan Assmann and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses is at the foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture. Here the factual and fictional events and characters in religious beliefs are studied. It traces monotheism back to the Egyptian king Akhenaten and shows how Moses's followers established truth by denouncing all others as false.

Moses and Akhenaten

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591438845
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Book Synopsis Moses and Akhenaten by : Ahmed Osman

Download or read book Moses and Akhenaten written by Ahmed Osman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reinterpretation of biblical and Egyptian history that shows Moses and the Pharaoh Akhenaten to be one and the same. • Provides dramatic evidence from both archaeological and documentary sources. • A radical challenge to long-established beliefs on the origin of Semitic religion. During his reign, the Pharaoh Akhenaten was able to abolish the complex pantheon of the ancient Egyptian religion and replace it with a single god, the Aten, who had no image or form. Seizing on the striking similarities between the religious vision of this “heretic” pharaoh and the teachings of Moses, Sigmund Freud was the first to argue that Moses was in fact an Egyptian. Now Ahmed Osman, using recent archaeological discoveries and historical documents, contends that Akhenaten and Moses were one and the same man. In a stunning retelling of the Exodus story, Osman details the events of Moses/Akhenaten's life: how he was brought up by Israelite relatives, ruled Egypt for seventeen years, angered many of his subjects by replacing the traditional Egyptian pantheon with worship of the Aten, and was forced to abdicate the throne. Retreating to the Sinai with his Egyptian and Israelite supporters, he died out of the sight of his followers, presumably at the hands of Seti I, after an unsuccessful attempt to regain his throne. Osman reveals the Egyptian components in the monotheism preached by Moses as well as his use of Egyptian royal ritual and Egyptian religious expression. He shows that even the Ten Commandments betray the direct influence of Spell 125 in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Moses and Akhenaten provides a radical challenge to long-standing beliefs concerning the origin of Semitic religion and the puzzle of Akhenaten's deviation from ancient Egyptian tradition. In fact, if Osman's contentions are correct, many major Old Testament figures would be of Egyptian origin.