Ebook: The good book of human nature: an evolutionary reading of the Bible

Part I: Genesis: When Life Became Difficult -- 1 Adam and Eve: The Real Fall of Man -- 2 Cain and Abel: The Birth of Violence -- 3 Sons of Man, Sons of God: Dubious Relatives -- 4 The Flood: God's Wrath -- 5 The Tower of Babel: Death Traps -- 6 Patriarchs and Matriaarchs: Family Feud -- Part II: Moses And The Exodus: Becoming The One And Only -- 7 Moses: God's Will Becomes Law -- 8 Yaweh: The God with Two Lives -- 9 The Murmuring People: Our Clamoring First Nature -- 10 The Torah's Legacy: the Lesson of Exodus -- Part III: Kings And Prophets: Morality Made Divine -- 11 Judges and Kings: God Gives You Strength -- 12 The Prophets: God's Word from the Mouths of Men -- 13 How Can a Good God Be So Bad? On Heavenly Morality -- Part IV: Psalms And Co.: The Other God Of The Bible -- 14 The Psalms: My God -- 15 Job: How God Got Himself into a Devil of a Mess -- 16 Daniel: The Discovery of the Afterlife -- Part V: The New Testament: Salvation -- 17 Jesus of Nazareth: God Becomes Human -- 18 When Jesus Stayed in Heaven: The Birth of Christianity -- 19 The Book of Nature: God's Second Bible.;"In The Good Book of Human Nature, evolutionary anthropologist Carel van Schaik and historian Kai Michel advance a new view of Homo sapiens' cultural evolution. The Bible, they argue, was written to make sense of the single greatest change in history: the transition from egalitarian hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies. Religion arose as a strategy to cope with the unprecedented levels of epidemic disease, violence, inequality, and injustice that confronted us when we abandoned the bush--and which still confront us today, "--Amazon.com.