Review by Talha Mahmood -- Roadmap to the End of Days
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Review by Talha Mahmood -- Roadmap to the End of Days
[Following is a volunteer review of "Roadmap to the End of Days" by Daniel Friedmann.]
3 out of 4 stars
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Roadmap to the end of the days by Daniel Friedmann is a book based on biblical thoughts.
Its a non fiction book.
Recommended for: readers interested in sacred scriptures and faith.
In this book, Daniel Friedmann takes you on a journey to discover what is really going on with Biblical eschatology and the end of the world, and to then glimpse the future and ponder the role you will play in it.
In this book:
? Friedmann places world history within the context of the Divine Plan, allowing listeners to understand recent past and what is in store for the future.
? Learn about the Divine Plan structure in order to examine biblical history from a different perspective, with amazing accuracy. Why other experts who interpret the End of Days by deciphering prophecy alone may have it all wrong.
? Put the End of Days into context by examining parallel periods of history that have already occurred.
? Examining the revelations in scripture coherently and in sequence using the Divine Plan.
? Learn how the cosmic placement of events, both historical and present, reveals a pattern of the future.
? A bird’s eye view of where we have been and where we might go in order to bring us to a new level of understanding and a further questioning of our human origins, purpose, destiny, and ability to alter the path to the future.
He has mixed the scientific and religious beliefs to explain his ideas. If I would say something about the author relating to this book, I'll say that his books offered his beliefs about how the Tanakh can be reconciled with modern scientific understanding.
This book is a detailed study about history timeline based on the sacred scriptures. Friedmann uses plenty of data, examples, texts and computations to illustrate to the reader his thesis.
I loved that book, I had it full of notes, marks, underlining and extra information. The author is clear and his writing kind and respectful.
In short Roadmap to the end of the days is an exceptional task performed by Daniel Friedman. It should be read and understood by anyone who reveres the God of the Book—striving for for clarity of understanding, not necessarily agreement. For me, it is particularly helpful to understand the religious climate in which the early first-century Christians lived, and in which the early Church matured, and the deep-seated religious beliefs that confronted the Apostle Paul (a student of Gamaliel) and his contemporaries.
My main reservation about the book is that I would have liked to see more footnotes that tie Daniel’s remarks into the Kabbalist tradition. On personal inquiry about how this book ties into that tradition, he replied that parts of the book are his conclusions “based on various Kabbalah references" and that they are a “very short extension on the ideas Ramban published.” Personally I would have liked to see those connections worked out. But in his defense, my own style gets weighted down with many footnotes, and I know from personal experience that many readers are put off by such additional baggage. Every book in his trilogy is very clearly written, and I recommend them wholeheartedly.
I'm really interested in this book and strongly recommend all the readers, interested in this subject, to read it.
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars because of its theme, its content and clarity of point of view.
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3 out of 4 stars
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Roadmap to the end of the days by Daniel Friedmann is a book based on biblical thoughts.
Its a non fiction book.
Recommended for: readers interested in sacred scriptures and faith.
In this book, Daniel Friedmann takes you on a journey to discover what is really going on with Biblical eschatology and the end of the world, and to then glimpse the future and ponder the role you will play in it.
In this book:
? Friedmann places world history within the context of the Divine Plan, allowing listeners to understand recent past and what is in store for the future.
? Learn about the Divine Plan structure in order to examine biblical history from a different perspective, with amazing accuracy. Why other experts who interpret the End of Days by deciphering prophecy alone may have it all wrong.
? Put the End of Days into context by examining parallel periods of history that have already occurred.
? Examining the revelations in scripture coherently and in sequence using the Divine Plan.
? Learn how the cosmic placement of events, both historical and present, reveals a pattern of the future.
? A bird’s eye view of where we have been and where we might go in order to bring us to a new level of understanding and a further questioning of our human origins, purpose, destiny, and ability to alter the path to the future.
He has mixed the scientific and religious beliefs to explain his ideas. If I would say something about the author relating to this book, I'll say that his books offered his beliefs about how the Tanakh can be reconciled with modern scientific understanding.
This book is a detailed study about history timeline based on the sacred scriptures. Friedmann uses plenty of data, examples, texts and computations to illustrate to the reader his thesis.
I loved that book, I had it full of notes, marks, underlining and extra information. The author is clear and his writing kind and respectful.
In short Roadmap to the end of the days is an exceptional task performed by Daniel Friedman. It should be read and understood by anyone who reveres the God of the Book—striving for for clarity of understanding, not necessarily agreement. For me, it is particularly helpful to understand the religious climate in which the early first-century Christians lived, and in which the early Church matured, and the deep-seated religious beliefs that confronted the Apostle Paul (a student of Gamaliel) and his contemporaries.
My main reservation about the book is that I would have liked to see more footnotes that tie Daniel’s remarks into the Kabbalist tradition. On personal inquiry about how this book ties into that tradition, he replied that parts of the book are his conclusions “based on various Kabbalah references" and that they are a “very short extension on the ideas Ramban published.” Personally I would have liked to see those connections worked out. But in his defense, my own style gets weighted down with many footnotes, and I know from personal experience that many readers are put off by such additional baggage. Every book in his trilogy is very clearly written, and I recommend them wholeheartedly.
I'm really interested in this book and strongly recommend all the readers, interested in this subject, to read it.
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars because of its theme, its content and clarity of point of view.
******
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