Review by Burthen Idjaz -- Roadmap to the End of Days

[Burthen Idjaz]

[Following is a volunteer review of "Roadmap to the End of Days" by Daniel Friedmann.]

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3 out of 4 stars

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Roadmap to the End of Days is Daniel Friedmann’s 3rd book in his series “Inspired Studies.” The book is a non-fictional work where Friedmann places world history within the context of the “Divine Plan”. He studies the biblical events to allow readers to understand the past and the recent and in this epic undertaking, Friedmann cuts a clear path for the reader interested in life’s biggest questions – one of which concerns the “End of Days”.

The book is written in a Jewish context, so some premises of the book can become difficult to accept due to people different set of beliefs and practices. Nevertheless, this is a good book if you want to have a general idea on Friedmann’s perspective of the Torah. This book can also be read without reading the first two books in the series, as you can still get a good understanding of the book.

Being part of a religion where the Jews have always been badly perceived, I personally find the book’s retelling of biblical events to be an exciting and really instructive experience as they are presented concisely and coherently. Friedmann also provides summaries after discussions to fit them in the bigger picture. Amazingly, despite being a short book, one can learn so much about biblical Jewish history as he uses plenty of data, examples, texts, and comparations to illustrate to the reader his thesis. Because of this, I find the book engaging and even if I don’t necessarily subscribe to the beliefs, the book introduces the reader to a new level of understanding and a further questioning of our human origins, purpose, and destiny.

However, the book becomes challenging to read when he starts to talk about how exactly he pierced the veil that obscures future events. Friedmann provides an appendix, hoping to complement the chapters on how the pattern was produced, but the appendix doesn’t help much as it only contains a summary of these chapters. Some extracts are given without providing appealing reasons on why it is the case. An example is this extract from the book, “Nonetheless, the Bible tells us to follow a pattern of seven days per week, which is not tied to the motion of a cosmic body. We run our lives on this weekly pattern, and the weeks fit within the overall cosmic calendar of months, seasons, and years.” I am hoping for more details on how the weeks fit within the cosmic calendar, but he provides none of it. More of these excerpts can be found in the book.

However, despite the aforementioned flaws, I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars. The book is still an enjoyable read as the author writes the book to ensure that most, if not all, details of the book is clear to the reader. This book is ideal for people who want to delve into the pages of history, increase their knowledge and also to spend a good amount of time in fruitful reading.

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