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Judy Collins offers up here an absolutely exquisite musical ornament for the holidays. The "Song for Sarajevo" is perhaps the most stirring song in this collection, a holiday story sung from the view point of a young child in a war torn country during the winter season. With war as an "evil bird" all around, when the child closes her eyes, she dreams of peace, of flowers on a hill, of her mother's smile. The song "In the Bleak Mid Winter" sung in the style of a traditional English ballad ushers in a breath taking frosty winter mood, simple and humbly performed. Finally near the end is a wonderful story, "The Blizzard", to encourage all those broken hearted and crushed ones in this season. A light shines in the window "after the storm".

The book offers logical explanations to many of the phenomena occuring in the bible. The authors style of writing also adds to this marvelous attempt to explain the bible as a historical book.

This edition by BN Publishing is a cheap, unauthorized copy of the original book. It is missing most of the photos and tables that make the book great. The other reviews are written about the original book and not this edition. My son needed the book for a class. Unfortunately by the time we realized that this was the incomplete book, it was too late to return it. The book itself is great, but do not buy this edition.

In reading this book you should keep in mind that an earlieredition devoted a whole chapter to the Shroud of Turin. Nowthat the Shroud has been proven to be a mediaval fake, you haveto ask yourself whether or not all the scholarship in this bookis just as bogus.

Bible as History sadly avoids the face value claims of the text in an attempt to demythologize the events of history. All supernatural elemants are reduced to natural phenomena. In an attempt to defend the Bible as historical the author removes God and the miracles which are central to the claims of the text. The removing the supernatural leaves a storyline which fails to be either internally or externally consistent. Case in point, Moses and the burning bush. Keller describes a mideastern plant which secrets oil. He then suggests Moses probably saw such a plant which had caught fire enabling the bush to burn without being consumed as the Exodus story claims. Unfortunately this naturalized version does not explain why Moses, a man wanted for murder in Egypt , would suddenly return.