The Bible is not only the world’s best-selling and most read book, but it is also one of the fundamental pillars of modern Western culture. Whether we are Christian believers or not, we cannot avoid or deny the enormous influence of this text on modern society.
But the Bible is not just a religious text. Both the Old and New Testaments are full of mysteries and unanswered questions that take us back to times even before the Jews themselves, to the Babylonian passages of creation that may have inspired all Jewish mythology. Were the first versions of the Bible just a plagiarism of those texts?
The book also addresses fundamental questions such as, did Paradise really exist? Why did the Israelites worship golden calves after being rescued by Moses? Could simple trumpets knock down the walls of Jericho? What is true about the story of Cain? Where was Jesus during the eighteen years of his silence? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls really contain, which are so carefully preserved?
All of these and many more questions are addressed with rigor and plausibility by historian Robert Walford (author, among others, of The between myth and reality), who always brings a rigorous historical perspective.