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The Bible (Hardcover)

By: Karen Armstrong (Author)

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"[Armstrong] provides an excellent prTcis on the writing and compiling of the Bible and the ensuing centuries of biblical interpretation....This is one terrific little book."

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An eye-opening study of the world's most influential book examines the Bible's complex and varied history, the social and political environment in which oral history became written scripture, how the various books were collected into a single volume, its acceptance as Christianity's sacred text, and the impact of translation and interpretation on meaning. 100,000 first printing.

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Religious historian and former nun, Karen Armstrong (THE HISTORY OF GOD, THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION) tackles a momentous task in this addition to the Books that Changed the World series--a biography of the Bible, perhaps the most widely read and contested book in print. Armstrong divides her study into eight succinct chapters
(the whole book is less than 200 pages): Torah, Scripture, Gospel, Midrash, Charity, Lecto Divina, Sola Scriptura, and Modernity. She discusses the collection of the many texts that came to make up the Bible, its codification by the religious power-brokers, and its influential proliferation, and she highlights how readings of the Bible have changed from cultural moment to cultural moment, which supports the notion that this is a book that bears multiple interpretations and cannot but be related to its enduring importance.

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