Publisher's Synopsis
Asserts that the Bible is a succession of twelve relatively separate religions, eight in the Old Testament and four in the New: the SumeroAkkadian religion of Genesis 1-11; the Aramaean religion of the patriarchal nomads; the EgyptoMidianite religion of Moses; Joshua's religion of genocide; the Canaanite-Hebrew religion of the Judges and Kings; the revolutionary religion of Israel's prophets; Judaism; the humanistic religion of poets and scholars; the Mandaean religion of John the Baptist; the spiritual religion of Jesus; Paul's mystical religion of the indwelling of Christ; and the apocalyptic religion of the Revelator.
