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An edition of The good book of human nature (2016)

The good book of human nature

an evolutionary reading of the Bible

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"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.

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Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
472

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Subjects
Criticism, interpretation, Philosophy, Psychology, Bible, Bible and anthropology, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., Bible, psychology, Bible, philosophy, Cultural Evolution, Religion and culture, Theological anthropolgy

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Cover of: Das Tagebuch der Menschheit
Das Tagebuch der Menschheit: Was die Bibel über unsere Evolution verrät
Jun 07, 2017, Rowohlt Taschenbuch
Paperback in German - 1. Taschenbuchausgabe
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Cover of: Het oerboek van de mens
Het oerboek van de mens: de evolutie en de Bijbel
2017, Balans
Hardcover in Dutch - Achtste druk
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2016, Basic Books
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Das Tagebuch der Menschheit: Was die Bibel über unsere Evolution verrät
Sep 21, 2016, Rowohlt Verlag
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-453) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
220.6
Library of Congress
BS511.3 .S365 2016

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
vi, 472 pages
Number of pages
472
Dimensions
24.13 x 16.51 x 3.81 centimeters
Weight
752 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27215892M
ISBN 10
0465074707
ISBN 13
9780465074709
LCCN
2016009059
OCLC/WorldCat
953973813, 920018268

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