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The Bible the Biography

Examines the Bible's complex history, the social and political environment in which oral history became written scripture, how the various books were collected into a single volume, and its acceptance as Christianity's sacred text.

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  • "Examines the Bible's complex history, the social and political environment in which oral history became written scripture, how the various books were collected into a single volume, and its acceptance as Christianity's sacred text."@en
  • "Geschiedenis van het ontstaan van de Bijbel en van de interpretatie van de bijbelse geschriften binnen jodendom en christendom."
  • "Historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, and life of the Bible, analyzing how oral history turned into written scripture, was collected, and became Christianity's sacred text."@en
  • "The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last two hundred years alone. In this seminal account, Karen Armstrong traces the gestation of the Bible to reveal a complex and contradictory document created by scores of people over hundreds of years."@en
  • "Religious historian Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, life, and afterlife of history's most powerful book. Armstrong analyzes the social and political situation in which oral history turned into written scripture, how this all-pervasive scripture was collected into one work, and how it became accepted as Christianity's sacred text. She explores how "as the pragmatic scientific ethos of modernity took hold, scripture was read for the information that it imparted" and how, in the nineteenth century, historical criticism of the Bible caused greater fear than Darwinism.--From publisher description."@en
  • "As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Geschiedenis (vorm)"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en

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  • "Biblia : biografia"@pl
  • "The Bible the Biography"@en
  • "The Bible : the biography"
  • "The Bible : the biography"@en
  • "The bible : the biography"
  • "The bible : the biography"@en
  • "De Bijbel : de biografie"
  • "The Bible : a biography"@en

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