BOOK REVIEW: Schaik, Carel van – Michel, Kai: „The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible”. Hachette Book Group; USA; 2016; 480 pages; ISBN: 0465074707

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB THEOL. REF. TRANSYLV., Volume 67 (LXVII), No. 2, December 2022, pp. 303-309en-US
dc.creatorLEGÉNDY, Kristóf
dc.date2022-12-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T21:33:00Z
dc.descriptionThe book co-authored by primatologist Carel van Schaik and historian Kai Michel offers a truly interesting reading for theologists and scientists alike. They examine the Bible as a historical record of the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens. Their basic thesis is that the texts of the Bible came into being during the cultural evolution from a hunter-gatherer way of life to a settled agricultural lifestyle, even if they were not composed as a direct result of the revolution of farming (as the two events were thousands of years apart). The Bible was written by countless authors, but God was not one of them – claim the co-authors. In fact, the working approach and basic concept of their book views the spiritual reading of the Bible as merely a subsequent addition or extra layer, and thus it was primarily written for those open to a purely scientific exegesis of the texts of the Bible, those willing to forgo its moral-spiritual interpretation. There is no room for me to present every point made in the book step by step from Genesis up to the Gospels – partly because it is a work of nearly 500 pages –, therefore I will only give highlights of what the co-authors mean by an evolutionary reading of the Bible.en-US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/2562
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dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
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dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2022 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Reformata Transylvanicaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Theologia Reformata Transylvanica; Volume 67, No. 2, 2022; 303-309en-US
dc.source2065-9482
dc.source1582-5418
dc.source10.24193/10.24193/subbtref.67.2
dc.titleBOOK REVIEW: Schaik, Carel van – Michel, Kai: „The Good Book of Human Nature: An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible”. Hachette Book Group; USA; 2016; 480 pages; ISBN: 0465074707en-US
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