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Available
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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.
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LCC
BS450.A76 2007
Original publication date
2007
Physical description
302 p.; 21 cm
ISBN
9780871139696
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