Religion from The Real Book Shop

Abridged Edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt inlaid design to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece. 756pp. Esoteric study of Man's understanding and enactment of religious and magic rituals.

The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores it with profound appreciation for its cultural and psychological power as literature. From the birth of the Hebrew Bible to the… Read more about this item

In Spies of the Bible, Rose Mary Sheldon highlights the importance of espionage and traces the role intelligence has played from the Jewish exodus from Egypt to the Bar Kochba Revolt. The Near East has been fiercely contested by various parties for thousands of years, and much of the fighting was conducted not in large-scale battles and confrontations, but in… Read more about this item