Jonathan Kirsch

King David: The Real Life of the Man Who Ruled Israel (2001)

If you had asked me before I read King David, how familiar I was with all the Biblical David stories, I would have told you I knew them all. After all, having been raised on daily bible study, as a fundamentalist christian, who read propaganda religious literature for entertainment, I'm certain I...

A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization (2006)

God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism (2005)

One True God or Many?This is a study of the 2,000 year war between polytheism and monotheism, which ended in the victory of religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam.I wish I could say I appreciated the book more than I did. I'm intuitively sympathetic to the approach of the author. However,...

The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible (1998)