Reddit reviews The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood

Here's a simplified summary of a number of sources, detailing the polytheistic roots of Judaism and the complex authorship of the Torah:

• A History of God
  
  One of the primary sources for that video is a book by Karen Armstrong, A History of God
  
  Regarding the multiple authors of the Torah, there's a book called Who Wrote the Bible by Richard Elliot Friedman. In Bible scholarship, the explanation for the authorship of the Torah is called the Documentary Hypothesis (or the DH). Basically, there are four primary authors identified, and how they created a patchwork of each book. While there's a lot of debate around the DH, it's still the best explanation of the origins and sources of the Torah.
  
  The next book is, The Rocks Don't Lie by geologist David Montgomery. This book will conclusively explain how incompatible the Noah's Flood story is with the geological record. What's interesting about this book is that the author isn't simply trying to knock down the story from Genesis, but is trying to understand how it might be an exaggerated account of a localized flood event.
  
  The next one is The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finklestein and Neil Asher Silberman. Dr. Finklestein is one of the leading archaeologists in Israel today. In this book, they explain a history of the Jews and Israel based on the archaeological evidence rather than on the Bible. Here is a 90 minute video based on the book. There is a longer multi-part documentary on YouTube (about 6 hours), but they get so deep into the details it's a tough watch. :D
  
  Finally, there is a Yale online course on the Introduction to the Old Testament, that's well worth the investment of time.
  
  Not everything presented in these materials is agreed to 100% by scholarship, but these collected works do represent where the majority of Bible scholars and historians stand on the history of the Jews and Israel. It's also important to know that scholars who believe in the literal truth of the Bible are in the minority.

I am reading an amazing book on the story of Noah's flood and how it is not possible from a geologic standpoint.