Skepticism of Religion: An Informal Bibliography

By John W. Loftus at 6/27/2010
Nelson Brooke of Think Atheist put together a nice list of skeptical books that "will enable the reader to mount a full-fledged intellectual defense of skepticism." It's good. Check it out.

6 comments:

Ken Pulliam said...

YOu gotta love Nelson's picture. Make Darwin look like he could be a member of ZZ Top.

June 27, 2010 8:17 AM  
e said...

I'm glad I checked out the link. There's at least two lifetimes of reading in that bibliography.

June 27, 2010 9:58 AM  
nelson said...

thanks John! i really appreciate you posting a link to the list.
cheers!

@Ken: i think Darwin would have liked ZZ Top, don't you?! :)

June 27, 2010 12:19 PM  
David said...

Thanks. My Amazon wishlist just increased ten fold.

June 27, 2010 2:40 PM  
Greg Mills said...

Of course ZZ Top is responsible for that great apologia "Jesus Left Chicago". Better than most apologia.

June 27, 2010 5:58 PM  
Chris Jones said...

Terrific list. Thank you so much for posting it. I've read almost all of the books on the Syro-Palestinian History section and about half of the others, but had been wanting some new titles. What I like about this list is that it isn't completely stuffed with historical minimalist literature (the extreme reaction to the 100% credulous works), but contains a decent proportion of the more realistic, objective scholars such as my favorites Dever, Ehrman and Friedman.

A couple of additional authors for those who enjoy the proto-Judaism historical genre, though they're a bit technical at times (like Ziony Zevit's book in this list): Frank Moore Cross, Jr. and Mark Smith. These address the evidence for continuity from a textual approach of the pre-Israelite cultures into Israel/Judah. These are some of the more memorable works that I've read.

June 29, 2010 11:01 AM  

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