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Excellent exposition of Exodus

Revisado: 02-19-24

Enns does it again, providing serious Christians with a realistic explanation of what the authors and editors of Exodus were really getting at while navigating between the Scylla of biblical fundamentalist literalism and the Charybdis of atheistic fundamentalist criticism, both of which treat the authors and editors and/or readers of a great work as ignorant and obtuse.

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An insightful analysis of Revelation

Revisado: 04-02-23

I was reared as an evangelical, but am now attend a mainline church. My switch came from reading the Bible frequently and thoroughly. One thing that doing so did was to make me realize that the end times teachings I grew up with were not consistent with what I was reading. In this book, Dr. Ehrman has done the best job of exposing those problems and the inconsistencies of the Jesus of Revelation with the Jesus of the Gospels that I have ever read. Kudos!

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Best Baseball Book I’ve Read

Revisado: 11-12-21

As a Missouri native and baseball fan, I knew something of the history of the St. Louis Browns and Veeck’s history as the brief owner. And I recall the disco demolition night. But I had no idea how important and innovative he was. Not to mention he was a real life Forrest Gump in intersecting with so many important people of the 20th century.

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For Former Evangelicals who are still Christian

Revisado: 09-07-21

While the book acknowledges that some leaving Evangelicalism will leave faith, or at least the Christian faith, altogether, I believe this book is of most value to us who truly believe in Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity, but believe that Evangelicalism as practiced in the United States in the first two decades of the 21st century is a hindrance rather than an aid in finding and worshiping the God of the Old and New Testaments. Having grown up in an Evangelical household and having worshiped as an Evangelical for six decades, I have watched with sadness and horror as the welcoming, optimistic Evangelicalism of my youth has transmogrified into an exclusivity, pessimistic mess. As a child, my mother was the adult Sunday school teacher for both sexes 30 and older in our church. I believe that another woman served that role before she did, though that was before my memory. In the Evangelicalism I left, such a leadership role for women had been denied for at least two decades. Dr. Gushee has witnessed similar problems, though he traces them back to a time before I was even born, and he offers insights for those of us who have had enough, but still believe in the God who we used to find in Evangelicalism.

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A classic of the anti war genre

Revisado: 08-26-21

I read this book as a teenager more than 40 years ago. It caused me to become a fan of Vonnegut and I devoured his books. The narrator is excellent, with a voice and delivery perfectly suited for the text.

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A very important book

Revisado: 08-20-21

My mother taught a mixed-sex adult Sunday school class in a white Evangelical church during my childhood in the 1960s and 1970s. By the early 2000s, my family was attending an Southern Baptist church where that would have been forbidden and it has remained that way in the churches we have attended since. No more for our family. Dr. Barr explains why this development is not only ahistorical but a serious theological error that even embraces the Arian heresy to justify itself and leads to sexual harassment and abuse in the Church. A must read.

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Every American should read this book

Revisado: 08-13-21

This explains so much about how white Evangelicalism came to abandon the kind of Christianity I knew growing up, when my mother taught an adult Sunday school class including both men and women and people of different political beliefs worshiped together.

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Lewis’ Classic conclusion to his Space Trilogy

Revisado: 06-28-19

A classic story that stands ready to teach deep lessons to those with ears to hear. It offers a prescient warning to our age, in which so many eagerly toss aside the traditions by which our ancestors lived for untold centuries.

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My Favorite Audio version of the New Testament

Revisado: 03-27-19

The narration is superb and I love listening to the KJV. My only criticism is that as a compilation, it would be better if each book were a separate "book", so that one doesn't have to figure out what chapter to navigate to to get the a specified book.and chapter number as traditionally designated for the New Testament.The Audible breakdown works okay if one listens to the books of the New Testament in canonical order, but not as well if one wishes to listen to them in some other order.

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An Edifying Book

Revisado: 04-09-18

Would you consider the audio edition of Did Jesus Exist? to be better than the print version?

I have not read the print version.

Any additional comments?

The narration was excellent. I was very much impressed with Professor Ehrman's arguments. I did not agree with his arguments against the divinity of Jesus, but I found his arguments in support of Jesus' historicity to be compelling. Anyone doubting the historicity of Jesus should read or listen to this book.

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