| Some Mistakes of Moses Contributor(s): Ingersoll, Robert Green (Author) |
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ISBN: 1605209074 ISBN-13: 9781605209074 Publisher: Cosimo Classics OUR PRICE: $21.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Religious - Religion | Spirituality |
| Dewey: 222.106 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5" W x 8" (0.66 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. First published in 1879, this audaciously titled volume is a collection of short essays challenging the concept of biblical inerrancy. Focusing on the first five books of the Bible, once popularly believed to have been written by Moses, Ingersoll highlights the savageries, absurdities, injustices, and scientific inaccuracies of the writings considered noble and true by so many. As enjoyable a read as it is a provocative one, this is the lost classic of a true American original. |
