Title: For "The Gifts of the Jews", look elsewhere
Review: How disappointing this book was! Mr. Cahill promised an inside perspective on the history and contributions of these desert nomads, but one soon realizes that the author is really at odds with his subject matter. We will cast aside all presuppositions about early history, he says, and then picks up an old line about humans mutating. No matter how many hours it took to prepare and write this book, what mostly comes across is that the author either never really got to know, or didn't like, the people and their God who he promised to tell us about. As important a theme as "promises kept" is to the history of God and Abram, I was fooled by the promises made on the bookjacket that the book came nowhere close to fulfilling.
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