An edition of The good book of human nature
(2016)
The good book of human nature
an evolutionary reading of the Bible
by Carel van Schaik and Kai Michel
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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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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-453) and index.
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