The Good Book of Human Nature
An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible
New York : Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: vi, 472 pages ; 25 cm
"In The Good Book of Human Nature, evolutionary anthropologist Carel van Schaik and historian Kai Michel advance a new view of Homo sapiens' cultural evolution. The Bible, they argue, was written to make sense of the single greatest change in history: the transition from egalitarian hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies. Religion arose as a strategy to cope with the unprecedented levels of epidemic disease, violence, inequality, and injustice that confronted us when we abandoned the bush--and which still confront us today,"--Amazon.com.
Contents:
Part I: Genesis: When Life Became Difficult -- 1 Adam and Eve: The Real Fall of Man -- 2 Cain and Abel: The Birth of Violence -- 3 Sons of Man, Sons of God: Dubious Relatives -- 4 The Flood: God's Wrath -- 5 The Tower of Babel: Death Traps -- 6 Patriarchs and Matriaarchs: Family Feud -- Part II: Moses And The Exodus: Becoming The One And Only -- 7 Moses: God's Will Becomes Law -- 8 Yaweh: The God with Two Lives -- 9 The Murmuring People: Our Clamoring First Nature -- 10 The Torah's Legacy: the Lesson of Exodus -- Part III: Kings And Prophets: Morality Made Divine -- 11 Judges and Kings: God Gives You Strength -- 12 The Prophets: God's Word from the Mouths of Men -- 13 How Can a Good God Be So Bad? On Heavenly Morality -- Part IV: Psalms And Co.: The Other God Of The Bible -- 14 The Psalms: My God -- 15 Job: How God Got Himself into a Devil of a Mess -- 16 Daniel: The Discovery of the Afterlife -- Part V: The New Testament: Salvation -- 17 Jesus of Nazareth: God Becomes Human -- 18 When Jesus Stayed in Heaven: The Birth of Christianity -- 19 The Book of Nature: God's Second Bible.
Subjects:
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible -- Psychology.
Bible -- Philosophy.
Bible and anthropology.
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible -- Psychology.
Bible -- Philosophy.
Bible and anthropology.
ISBN:
9780465074709 (hardcover)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
RELIGION Bible History Text Sch | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
RELIGION Bible History Text Sch | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.