Mistakes of Moses

Robert Green Ingersoll, the most famous agnostic in American history, was tired of seeing his lectures bootlegged and mangled by publishers. So he finally released "Mistakes of Moses" himself: a meticulous, savagely intelligent dismantling of the Pentateuch's first five books. With the precision of a lawyer and the wit of a master orator, Ingersoll turns his attention to Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, hunting for contradictions, scientific impossibilities, and moral atrocities hidden in every chapter. He interrogates the flood, the parting of the Red Sea, the burning bush, and the Ten Commandments with relentless logic, asking the questions that Victorian America whispered but rarely shouted. This isn't rage or ignorance: it's a devastatingly learned critique written by a man who knew the Bible better than most preachers. More than a century later, "Mistakes of Moses" remains the gold standard for rationalist biblical criticism, a fearless book that refuses to bow to inherited authority. It is for anyone who has ever wondered whether the stories they were told about God actually hold up under scrutiny.