Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Bible Stories : Fact, Fiction and Fantasy in Scripture - GAVIN EVANS

Bible Stories

Fact, Fiction and Fantasy in Scripture

By: GAVIN EVANS

Hardcover | 25 September 2025

At a Glance

Hardcover


RRP $49.99

$48.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $12.19 with

 or 

Ships in 15 to 25 business days

Beginning with the rise of modern Pentecostalism before tracking back 2,500-years, author and academic Gavin Evans traces the history of the Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In this book he explores the New Testament, Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an. By delving into recent archaeological research and presenting evidence that tales such as those of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and also Moses, Joshua and the Exodus, were entirely mythological. Robust interrogation of the evidence allows Evans to go further still, casting doubt on the Jesus story and arguing that even if he did exist as an historical figure, we know next to nothing about him. As well as examining these key religious texts, Bible Stories also holds modern atheism to account - critiquing the work of some of its most ardent advocates, Evans rejects a militant approach and makes a compelling argument for a softer, more tolerant atheism. AUTHOR: Gavin Evans grew up in South Africa and was intensely involved in anti-apartheid activities in the 1980s. He lectures at Birkbeck, University of London.

More in History

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea : Journeys through Ancient Literature - Emily Wilson
The Burning Blue : Stories of the Navy's warriors in the skies - Mike Carlton
Melbourne Airport Tullamarine : A History - Arun Chandu

RRP $49.99

$40.75

18%
OFF
Biological War : A Scenario - Annie Jacobsen

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
Blackbirding : A reckoning with the Australian slave trade - Ryan Butta
Elizabeth II : In Private. In Public. The Inside Story. - Robert Hardman
The Dog's Gaze : A Visual History - Thomas W. Laqueur

RRP $85.00

$61.99

27%
OFF
Children of the Third Reich : Three Pasts, Three Futures - Catrine Clay
Belonging - Ambelin Kwaymullina

Hardcover

RRP $27.99

$23.75

15%
OFF
Bondi Terror : The tragedy, the courage, the aftermath - Alex Ryvchin
Suicidal Empathy : Dying to Be Kind - Gad Saad

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
First Knowledges Politics : Philosophical Ordering by Country - Morgan James Brigg
Stuff the British Stole - Marc Fennell

RRP $36.99

$29.99

19%
OFF
Kosciuszko : The incredible life of the man behind the mountain - Anthony Sharwood
The Cauldron : The Making of the Modern Middle East - Simon Sebag Montefiore