Dark History of the Bible

Human sacrifice, floods, plagues, murders, massacres, betrayal, wars, incest, sea monsters, and dragons—how well do you really know the stories told in the Bible?In the Beginning From Noah’s Ark to the Ark of the Covenant, from Genesis to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, from Moses to the Maccabees, A Dark History: The Bible examines the origins and meanings of the greatest stories of the Old and New Testaments.Controversy Acting in the name of God has caused immense conflict and bloodshed not just between Christians, Jews, and Muslims but within the different branches of each religion. How is the “Word” of God interpreted so differently?Myth We may think of the stories of the Flood, Lot’s Wife, and Jacob and Esau as exclusive to the Bible, but we find echoes of these stories in other ancient tales. So how much does the Bible share with myths in other cultures?