The Bible : a biography

by Karen Armstrong

Paper Book, 2007

Status

Available

Call number

BS450.A76 2007

Publication

New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Atlantic Monthly Press ; Distributed by Group West, 2007.

Description

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.

LCC

BS450.A76 2007

Original publication date

2007

Physical description

302 p.; 21 cm

ISBN

9780871139696

Barcode

31342000005644

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