Length16h 58m
About this audiobook
Is the Bible, the most influential book in world history, still relevant? Why do people dismiss it as being irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things? This explanation of the Book of Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Bible, will demonstrate how it remains profoundly relevant—both to the great issues of our day and to each individual life. Do you doubt the existence of God because you think believing in God is irrational? This book will cause you to reexamine your doubts. The title of this commentary is The Rational Bible because its approach is entirely reason-based. The reader is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. In Dennis Prager's words, "If something I write is not rational, I have not done my job." The Rational Bible is the fruit of Prager's forty years of teaching to people of every faith and no faith at all. On virtually every page, you will discover how the text relates to the contemporary world in general and to you on a personal level. His goal: to change your mind—and, as a result, to change your life.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length16 hrs 58 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 11, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Why This Commentary?
2Who Is This Torah Commentary For?
3To Jewish Readers:
4To Christian Readers:
5To Non-Religious Readers:
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6The Torah Is Not Man-Made
7Man-Made or God-Made: Why It Matters
8How Was the Torah Transmitted?
9Reason, Torah, and God
10Why Read The Rational Bible?
11Some Details
12Why Exodus Was Volume 1
13BC or BCE?
14God as “He”
15On How to Read This Commentary
16The Use of Post-Biblical Jewish Sources
17Preface
18Chapter 1
19Why Moses Introduced New Laws and New Ideas
20Did Moses Write Every Word of Deuteronomy?
21On the Need to Explain the Torah
22Moses’s First Address
23ESSAY: A Good Society Is Unattainable without Wisdom
24ESSAY: Fear of God Is Morally and Psychologically Necessary
25Was Sending Spies into Canaan God’s Idea or Moses’s?
26ESSAY: When Anger—Divine and Human—Is Appropriate
27When God Does Not Listen
28Chapter 2
29God Is Not Ethnocentric, and Israel Is Not to Expand beyond the Promised Land
30Another Moral First
31Who Complains?
32ESSAY: The Moral Problem of Killing “Men, Women, and Children” in the Torah
33Chapter 3
34The Torah and Monotheism
35Moses Blamed the Israelites for Not Being Allowed to Enter the Promised Land
36Chapter 4
37ESSAY: Do All of the Torah’s Laws Have Reasons?
38A Nation’s Greatness Comes from Its Moral Power
39ESSAY: Does God Answer Our Prayers?
40When Nations Forget Their Past, They Cease to Exist
41ESSAY: Are We to Fear or Only Revere God?
42The Power of the Ear versus the Power of the Eye
43God Is Not Physical
44ESSAY: Can Other Nations Worship the Sun and the Moon?
45Moses Expressed His Anger at the Israelites (Again)
46A Good God Does Get Angry
47What Happens When Jews Abandon God
48How to Find God
49God’s Promise That the Jews Will Not Perish
50Chapter 5
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