Some Mistakes of Moses (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781605209074)

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. First published in 1879, this audaciously titled volume is a collection of short essays challenging the concept of biblical inerrancy. Focusing on the first five books of the Bible, once popularly believed to have been written by Moses, Ingersoll highlights the savageries, absurdities, injustices, and scientific inaccuracies of the writings considered noble and true by so many. As enjoyable a read as it is a provocative one, this is the lost classic of a true American original.

Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
ISBN-10: 1605209074
ISBN-13: 9781605209074
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.61d