The Book of Lies (Meltzer novel) common, setting off the hunt for the world's first murder weapon. The Book of Lies (Meltzer novel) The Book of Lies is a novel written by Brad Meltzer which assumes a connection between the story of Cain and Abel and the superhero Superman, written by Jerry Siegel. According to WorldCat, the book is in 2133 libraries. The book has been translated into Polish, Hebrew, Italian, German, and Korean. The book of Genesis tells the story of the slaying of Abel by his brother Cain; the world's first recorded murder. But the Bible doesn't say what weapon Cain used. That detail
The Story of the Jews (book) review of the first volume for "The New York Times", Dwight Garner wrote: "Mr. Schama’s 'The Story of the Jews' is exemplary popular history. It’s engaged, literate, alert to recent scholarship and, at moments, winningly personal... Mr. Schama is Jewish, but not especially religious... His loyalty is obviously to the hard evidence. At the same time, he declares that “the ‘minimalist’ view of the Bible as wholly fictitious, and unhooked from historical reality, may be as much of a mistake as the biblical literalism it sought to supersede." Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, reviewing "Belonging" for the "New Statesman",