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The author tries to consider religion as a phenomenon that separates human beings from the rest of the animal world by creating certain beliefs. With their help, man overcomes his genetic imperatives.
Well-researched, concise, and provocative, the book by renowned religious historian S. G. F. Brandon remains influential in biblical criticism, inspiring authors such as Reza Aslan. It shows how history is mostly written by the victors.
"Qumran writings" or "Dead Sea Scrolls" represent one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century, which lead to the revision of some overly simplified atheistic understandings.
Vernant first told the stories published in this book to his grandson, and then, in a more complex form, he told them to his friends on summer evenings on a Greek island.
An exhaustive presentation that enables a historical, literary and religious introduction to the Bible and its world.