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The Bible

A Biography (Books That Changed the World)

By Karen Armstrong

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As 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 twContinue

As 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.

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    The Bible: The Biography by Karen Armstrong 302pp, Atlantic Books, £14.99 What on earth are we to make of the Bible? Literally a closed book to so many now, and when opened found to be an amazing mixture of the obscure, the horrendous and the sublime ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Bible By Karen Armstrong

    Karen Armstrong takes an active approach to Scripture I see Scripture more as an activity than a text, says Karen Armstrong, the foremost historian of religion in our time, whose new book The Bible: A Biography is being published this month. It's a b ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Others 176 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0802143849
  • ISBN-13: 9780802143846
  • Publisher: Grove Press
  • Pub date: Nov 01, 2008
  • Dimensions: 1264 mm x 839 mm x 148 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover
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