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Books recently read and reviewed by the
- Abarim Publications Editorial Team -
Cross On Me - a novel [An Abarim Publications production]
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| Arie Uittenbogaard | In the final decade of the twentieth century the humanities spiraled into an unprecedented crisis. Those fields of inquiry that have always been our most believed mirrors felt their fundaments dissolve and their authorities wane. Read on...
"Dazzling. Breathtaking." - Nate Larkin, author of Samson and the Pirate Monks.
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What Did The Bible Writers Know & When Did They Know It - What Archeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel [Book review]
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| William G. Dever | William G. Dever is a complicated man, with complicated arguments, which is probably fitting for a man of his stature. His book - a final, pre-retirement march onto the breach - carries a misleading title, offers a stunning wealth of insight in Levantine archeology and contains one major flaw. Read on... |
Samson and the Pirate Monks - Calling Men to Authentic Brotherhood [Book review]
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| Nate Larkin | With his formidable and exceptionally brave book, Nate Larking addresses the detrimental foe of sex addiction, the kind that makes one lie to spouse, friends, self and God. After the shocking details of his troubled life, Nate Larking informs the reader that a way out exists. Read on... |
Lost Secrets Of The Sacred Ark - Amazing Revelations of the Incredible Power of Gold [Book review]
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| Laurence Gardener | Beneath this brawny title lies the weirdest book I've ever read, and that not because of the subject but because of the way it is presented. Laurence Gardner makes a compelling case for the nature of the Ark of the Covenant: it is an electrical device, a humongous DC accumulator or capacitor that serves to electrify gold (to make some kind of benevolent white powder) but on occasion zaps people to death or levitates on earth's magnetic field. Read on... |
The Search - How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture [Book review]
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| John Battelle | In The Search John Battelle looks at one of the Internet's most defining features: search engines and the database they are building. More than just a handy tool to find what we want, search engines log our intentions and "link by link, click by click, search is building possibly the most lasting, ponderous, and significant cultural artifact in the history of mankind; the Database of Intentions". Read on... |
A Short History of Nearly Everything [Book review]
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| Bill Bryson | A Short History of Nearly Everything is a gem of a tome. It illustrates how big the universe is and how many interesting things are in it. It shows how many people are interested, how many perspectives this yields, and how much of the story we're still missing from our scientific records. Bill Bryson's continuous wonder rarely distracts from the book's overall celebration of the vast intricacies of existence. Read on... |
In Search of Paul - How Jesus's Apostle Opposed Rime's Empire with God's Kingdom [Book review]
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| John Dominic Crossan & Jonathan L. Reed | In Search Of Paul offers a fascinating survey of the world of the famous apostle and his audience, and so enthusiastically that the reader can almost taste the dust on the streets of Rome or hear the rioters shout in the great theater at Ephesus. Crossan and Reed are fabulous guides on our journey into the world of temples and towns crammed with little shops and taverns with altars and an empire that produces its own gods. Read on... |
Gulag - a history [Book review]
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| Anne Applebaum | Anne Applebaum's Gulag knocked my wind out. This report of the single most evil thing that humanity has managed to do to itself is by far the most horrible and upsetting account I have ever read. More than once I had lower this book to my lap and stare out the window for a bit. Then I prayed to the God whose compassion I could feel but whose omnipotence seemed as cruel as my own impotence. Read on... |
Aliens - Why they are here [Book review]
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| Bryan Appleyard | Appleyard's Aliens is a true pleasure, an adventure into the curious present state of the human mental condition. Aliens, whatever they are, are real. Aliens, in whatever way, exist. Read on... |
A Short History of the Catholic Church [Book review]
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| J. Derek Holmes & Bernhard W. Bickers | It is truly amazing that Holmes and Bickers manage to give a continuously fascinating record of the history of the Catholic Church without cluttering the pages with names and numbers. Read on... |
The Story of God - A personal journey into the world of science and religion [Book review]
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| Robert Winston | The Divine Idea is, for whatever purpose, natural to humans. Even so natural that all religions tend to gravitate towards identical or similar expressions and theologies. Read on... |
A History of the End of the World - How the most controversial book in the Bible changed the course of Western civilization [Book review]
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| Jonathan Kirsch | Kirsch is well researched but not in the least curious about the Book of Revelation. He spews his gall from page one and evokes every slander that Revelation has had to endure. Read on... |
Pornified - How pornography is transforming our lives, our relationships, and our families [Book review]
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| Pamela Paul | Porn is everywhere. Porn junkies are everywhere. Porn isn't cute, daring or liberating but a relentless destroyer of lives. Read on... |
The Fall of Jerusalem [Book review]
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| Flavius Josephus | Everybody knows that the Romans destroyed Jerusalem during the war of 66-70 AD but how this happened is often misrepresented by the brevity of the statement. Read on... |
Cracking Da Vinci's Code - The Hidden Agenda Unveiled [Book review]
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| James L. Garlow & Peter Jones | Cracking Da Vinci's Code by James L. Garlow and Peter Jones is a pleasantly written, popular rebuttal of Brown's theology, Christology and portrait of church history. Its mission is twofold: first to show, quite effortlessly, how often and how blatantly wrong DVC is about Biblical matters or statements concerning church history, and secondly, how paganism and Gnosticism have been on the upswing and gained detrimental momentum in the last fifty years or so. Read on... |
In The Beginning - A Short History of the Hebrew Language [Book review]
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| Joel M. Hoffman | The forming of the names Abraham, Sarah, Elohim and most of all YHWH ties directly into the great Hebrew invention of vowel notation, and hence into the worldwide availability of literature and every great discussion that has formed human culture since. Read on... |
Sister Aimee - the Life of Aimee Semple McPherson [Book review]
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| Daniel Mark Epstein | Daniel Mark Epstein tells the story of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. This 'Foursquare Church' is presently a Pentecostal empire with millions of members; all potential buyers, Epstein must have thought and presents Aimee as one of the godliest if not a bit unfortunate women of the present age. Read on... |
Blue Like Jazz - Nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality [Book review]
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| Donald Miller | Christianity is like jazz because jazz was created by the first generation out of slavery. Read on... |
