Vote for new book

[Archaea]

I'm dying here with nobody willing to pick one, as I'm already a few.

[BarbaraGordon]

What about your pharoah book by Osman? That looked cool. Actually, I looked him up and all of his works look cool.

[Archaea]

Make that book it.

A nonmormon book. I like that nomination. And it make for good discussion of his analysis and evidence.

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Make that book it.

A nonmormon book. I like that nomination. And it make for good discussion of his analysis and evidence.

Um, can we actually let people vote, or is this some sort of Bat-ocracy?

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

Um, can we actually let people vote, or is this some sort of Bat-ocracy?

Libocracy, maybe .

You can also add your vote for the Hebrew Pharaohs, by Ahmed Osman, a short less than two hundred page book. He's written about several of the Egyptian episodes and appears somewhat qualified.

If you don't like those four add your note here to vote for the Osman book.

[bluegoose]

I thought Harold Blooms book was on the short list for the BOTBOTOMM (BG see if you can figure that one out ).

I would actually prefer to read that one.

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by bluegoose

I thought Harold Blooms book was on the short list for the BOTBOTOMM (BG see if you can figure that one out ).

I would actually prefer to read that one.

funny. Flash has requested that I avoid acronyms.

hey, Grey Goose, can you link the book you're talking about? I really don't know what any of these books are. Without links I'm lost.

[Archaea]

or we could do what I do and read them all at the same time, excluding the Roman abomination.

[hyrum]

Where is Bagley's book on the list?

[Solon]

Originally Posted by Archaea

or we could do what I do and read them all at the same time, excluding the Roman abomination.

Hey, Gibbon's great. They just don't write like they used to. Couldn't we all do with more of this 18th century prose?

"The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events. They felt, or they fancied, that on every side they were incessantly assaulted by daemons, comforted by visions, instructed by prophecy, and surprisingly delivered from danger, sickness, and from death itself, by the supplications of the church. The real or imaginary prodigies of which they so frequently conceived themselves to be the objects, the instruments, or the spectators, very happily exposed them to adopt with the same ease but with far greater justice, the authentic wonders of the evangelic history; and thus miracles that exceeded not the measure of their own experience inspired them with the most lively assurance of mysteries which were acknowledged to surpass the limits of their understanding." (from chapter 15 of Gibbon's Decline and Fall ...)

Seriously, though, chapters 15 and 16 are really interesting treatments of Christianity in the Roman Empire (and its contribution to its fall).