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Lädt ... Mythology's Last Gods: Yahweh and Jesusvon William Harwood
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book is the presentation of material from a doctoral thesis that took a couple of decades to get out. While containing interesting ideas and hypotheses, it suffers greatly from the extremely inflated ego of the author, who presents mere hypotheses as fact, and merely notes a couple of times in the middle of long footnotes that the archaeologists and anthropologists don't agree with him. His sourcing is questionable, as much is derived from secondary sources, primarily books written for a lay audience. In addition, he appears to ignore a substantial portion of the scholarship on this issue, preferring to pick and choose a handful of sources that he can use to support his arguments, without engaging the arguments of other scholars that don't come to the same conclusions. The book is further marred by the author's puritanical insistance on using the exact Hebrew or Aramaic spelling of Biblical names, which is bad form in a book written for a general audience, as it becomes in-your-face promotion of the knowledge of the author, and does not serve to move the book along; in fact, it gets it bogged down in minutiae that might be appropriate in a doctoral thesis, but not in a general audience book that seeks to "correct" a lack: the fact that information on the origins of the Bible is unavailable to the ordinary lay person. That fact alone calls into question some of the premises of the author, as by the time this book was published, there were several other books on that topic, some of which he cites in his footnotes and bibliography. Another weakness is his logical fallacies; his initial premise was based on circular reasoning, and he mangles logic in several other places, as well, in one place even taking absence of evidence for evidence of presence! This book was clearly an ego-trip for the author, and that's unfortunate, because he has some interesting and thought-provoking ideas that could generate a great deal of valuable discussion if he wasn't so determined to be the smartest guy in the room. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
More than 100 years ago, historians began applying critical methods of documentary analysis to the Judaeo-Christian Bible. To scholars who had hoped to prove the Bible's authenticity, the results were traumatic. One by one, the various books of the Bible were discovered to contain errors of fact, inaccurate guesses, rationalizations, prophecies ex post facto (usually combined with prophecies of the future that proved inaccurate), and unmistakable, deliberate lies. Such was the power of the churches that, despite the publication of thousands of scholarly books and articles refuting every part of the Judaeo-Christian Bible, to this day the existence of unchallengeable proof that the Bible is a work of fiction is unknown to ninety percent of the population of Christian-dominated societies. For a century this information has been available only to students willing to wade through dozens of books, each of which deals with only one aspect of Judaeo-Christian mythology. It is hoped that, by bringing together information on the origin and development of every part of the Yahweh- and Jesus-myths, Mythology's Last Gods will make the facts available to a large enough segment of the population to end the equation of god-mythology with history permanently. This is the first book to critically analyze, and take issue with, every section of the Judaeo-Christian Bible from a wholly skeptical, utterly scholarly perspective. Mythology's Last Gods is a comprehensive history of the development of Judaeo-Christian god-mythology. Harwood traces the beginning of the "god" concept, the evolution of Judaism to the first century, and the evolution of Christianity from its monotheistic beginnings to its emergence as a three-god creed in A.D. 325. Harwood's work reveals many things including that Jesus the Nazarite preached only Essene Judaism, and that every teaching attributed to him can be traced to a pre-Christian source. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)220.68Religions Bible Bible Interpretation and criticism (Exegesis) Mythological, Numerological, etc. InterpretationsKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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