I find religious history books fascinating. Recommend your favorites!

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Sun Sep-10-06 07:02 PM
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I find religious history books fascinating. Recommend your favorites!

I just finished The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts and I am about a third of the way through Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews by James Carroll.

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Sun Sep-10-06 07:08 PM
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1. Holy War: The Crusades & Their Impact on Today's World.

Holy War: The Crusades & Their Impact on Today's World Karen Armstrong, 1988

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Sun Sep-10-06 07:30 PM
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2. How the Irish Saved Civilization--forgot the author's name.

About the monks who copied countless ancient documents and saved them from total destruction.

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