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Bible : A Biography by Karen Armstrong (2008, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated

ISBN-100802143849

ISBN-139780802143846

eBay Product ID (ePID)66161252

Product Key Features

Book TitleBibles : a Biography

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicBiblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, General, Biblical Studies / History & Culture, Biblical Studies / General

GenreReligion, Bibles

AuthorKaren Armstrong

Book SeriesBooks That Changed the World Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal220.09

SynopsisAs the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world's largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world's most widely distributed book and its best-selling, with an estimated six billion copies sold in the last two hundred years. But the Bible is a complex work with a complicated and obscure history. Its contents have changed over the centuries, it has been transformed by translation and, through interpretation, has developed manifold meanings to various religions, denominations, and sects. In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen 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, and how its interpretation changed over time. Armstrong's history of the Bible is a brilliant, captivating book, crucial in an age of declining faith and rising fundamentalism.