I would suggest Burton Mack's Who Wrote the New Testament?, the Elaine Pagels books and Freke & Gandy's controversial The Jesus Mysteries. I read Ehrman's Lost Christianities but I don't like his style. He framed his arguments from a far too orthodox perspective, even though his conclusions are anything but orthodox.
Pagels has some wonderful insights into early Christianity and Mack basically wrote the same sort of book as Ehrman, but better. Freke & Gandy, on the other hand...well, let's just say it's a fun book to read.
Pagels has some wonderful insights into early Christianity and Mack basically wrote the same sort of book as Ehrman, but better. Freke & Gandy, on the other hand...well, let's just say it's a fun book to read.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Non-Fiction survey
- 14/09/2009 05:38:04 PM
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Heh.
- 14/09/2009 05:58:59 PM
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You associate non-fiction with work? Are you a non-fiction book reviewer by day?
- 14/09/2009 06:35:59 PM
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I like non-fiction as long as it's not preachy.
- 14/09/2009 06:25:42 PM
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Fun.
- 14/09/2009 06:31:28 PM
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Machiavelli is a good case study for translation vs. original language
- 14/09/2009 06:48:46 PM
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Fact not fiction.
- 14/09/2009 06:43:32 PM
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I loved Radzinsky's Rasputin bio
- 14/09/2009 06:58:46 PM
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Re: I loved Radzinsky's Rasputin bio
- 14/09/2009 07:10:01 PM
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You're going to force me to start a Dan Brown discussion in a different thread.
- 14/09/2009 09:00:32 PM
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Well, I can do it here, no worries, just think of it as non-non-fiction.
- 14/09/2009 09:06:34 PM
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Re: Fact not fiction.
- 17/09/2009 12:40:31 AM
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Re: Non-Fiction survey
- 14/09/2009 07:25:20 PM
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I do read sometimes.
- 14/09/2009 08:01:03 PM
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If you liked Jesus, Interrupted...
- 14/09/2009 08:58:26 PM
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I read it quite a lot, obviously.
- 14/09/2009 09:20:40 PM
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Re: Non-Fiction survey
- 14/09/2009 09:24:35 PM
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I'd be interested to know the title of that Lincoln book. *NM*
- 15/09/2009 05:11:14 AM
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Re: Non-Fiction survey
- 14/09/2009 10:05:56 PM
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I'm sorry. I just can't take "pro wrestling" seriously enough to comment on it beyond this. *NM*
- 15/09/2009 05:15:13 AM
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Sweet
- 14/09/2009 10:09:21 PM
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My problem with Fisk is his naivete
- 15/09/2009 05:10:00 AM
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If you're referring to the passages I think you're referring to...
- 15/09/2009 11:06:04 AM
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Good survey!
- 14/09/2009 11:40:58 PM
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Ah...but where do you draw the line on the occult?
- 15/09/2009 05:07:14 AM
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Re: Non-Fiction survey
- 15/09/2009 12:25:57 AM
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I read a lot of it for my classes, so I read very little of it for leisure.
- 15/09/2009 12:46:23 AM
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As someone who read Ab Urbe Condita in Latin...the book you reference "delenda est".
- 15/09/2009 05:04:05 AM
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Interesting questions!
- 15/09/2009 07:20:05 AM
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Re: Non-Fiction survey
- 15/09/2009 11:35:48 AM
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Try reading something new you think you'd like and post a review! 
*NM*
- 17/09/2009 03:11:47 PM
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*NM*
- 17/09/2009 03:11:47 PM
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i like non-fiction!
- 15/09/2009 09:40:40 PM
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Lots of people have recommended The Omnivore's Dilemma to me *NM*
- 17/09/2009 03:14:09 PM
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