Many years ago I started taping Joseph Campbell's teachings on TV about The Transition of Myth through time. I have a number of these in my cassette library. Tthey showed the similarity betweenthe Pagan religions and the Judeo-christain teachings. For a while I taped the sermons of Christian preachers and Zola Levitt. I even watched the Jim Baker "shows". When I was so discouraged that I was unable to pray,read the bible, or go to church, these people helped me get back to God because they were just entertaining enough and non-judgemental. I listened to all the fundamentalists, such as Jerry Fallwell. I listened to David smith. I can't remember the name of my favorite preacher, but he wrote "When Bad Things Happen To good People." I still like Joyce Meyer. I have worn out three Bibles. My Bibles are heavily underlined and have notes in the margins. they are very worn, and sometimes have lost pages. I borrowed every book I could get from the Library. i watch all the documentarys on TV by National Geographic and The History channel. Besides a set of encyclopedias, I have in my tiny apartment "The Mystery Religions and Christianity"by Angus, "Story of the Bible World" by Keyes, "The Crusades" by Zoe Oldenbourg,"Civilization Past an Present" Published by Scott, Foresman and Company, "The Dead Sea Scrolls" by Wise,Abegg, and Cook, "The Atlas of Early Man" by Jacquetta Hawkes, "The Druids" by Ellis, "The Dead Sea Scrolls After Forty Years" by Shanks, Vanderkam, McCarter, and Sanders. I also read "The Dead Sea Scroll Conspiracy", but don't have a copy. I have "The Arabs In History" by Lewis, " the Horizen Book of Lost Worlds" by the editors of Horizon Magazine, Universal History of the World..Ancient Greece ( Golden Press), "Encyclopedia of the Gods" by Michael Jordan, "The Bible As History" by Keller, "The Missing Books of the Bible--Volumes I and II, A"a History of God" by Karen Armstrong, "The Way of God" by Moshe Chaim Luzzatto ( Jewish. A gift from a Rabbi that I studied with online.) 4 volume set--"what Life Was Like--on the banks of the Nile-Egypt 3050-30 BC;At the Dawn of Democracy- Classical Athens 525 -322 BC; midieval Europe 1500 In the Age of Chivalry, When Rome Ruled The World--The roman Empire 100BC to AD 200, "Gibbon's The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire", "The Upanishads", I did have "The bagavid Gita.". Someone borrowed it and didn't bring it back. I have Ron Hubbard's Dianetics. I gave away a number of books that I had from different religious groups including some books by Mary Baker Eddy. I just don't have room for everything. I have studied with several Jewish groups online, including the Messianic groups. I use all the reference books available online. i have read many more books from the library and have two construction manual notebooks full of information pertaining to various topics. There was one book given to me by a professor friend called "The Voyage of the Hero." It traced the traditions that we attribute to Jesus from achient Pagan practlices.
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