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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Schaik, Carel van, author.     Subjects     Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.     Bible -- Psychology.     Bible -- Philosophy.     Bible and anthropology.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Schaik, Carel van, author.       by title:      The good book of hum...         MARC Display

The good book of human nature : an evolutionary reading of the Bible / Carel van Schaik and Kai Michel. by Schaik, Carel van, author. New York : Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group, c2016. Subjects Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.   Bible -- Psychology.   Bible -- Philosophy.   Bible and anthropology. ISBN:  9780465074709 : 0465074707 Description:  vi, 472 pages ; 25 cm 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 220.6 Sc Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 220.6 Schaik Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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