Books Mentioned in This Episode

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Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

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"I am so sorry, guys, last thing on Scrooge, does A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens exist?"
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The Illustrated Golden Bough

by James George Frazer

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"And I love this because this feels like an allusion to the work of Joseph Campbell or Frasier's The Golden Bough, which are great reads if you're into folklore—seminal works."
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The Bible

by Robert P. Carroll, Stephen Prickett

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"That’s interesting, too, when you switch between New International Version of the Bible in King James and some of the other newer versions of the Bible, Book of Mormon... yeah."
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Creed Or Chaos?

by Dorothy Leigh Sayers

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"That’s interesting, too, when you switch between New International Version of the Bible in King James and some of the other newer versions of the Bible, Book of Mormon... yeah."
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Jesus

by Charles Templeton

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"So people in the modern world figuring out the exact date of Jesus's birthday, their goals differ from the goals of whomever wrote the gospels."
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The New Complete Works of Josephus

by Flavius Josephus

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"But if you go to other scholars, like Flavius Josephus—oh, what a great name!"