The Bible :
Armstrong, Karen, 1944-
The Bible : the biography / Karen Armstrong. - London : Atlantic, 2007. - 302 p. ; 24 cm. - Books that shook the world. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Torah --
Scripture --
Gospel --
Midrash --
Charity --
Lectio divina --
Sola scriptura --
Modernity.
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. A work made up of sixty-six 'books' and divided into two Testaments, the Bible has been transformed by its various translations into a single work. This work presents an account, which discusses the conception, gestation, life and afterlife of the collection of 'books' to analyse how the scripture was collected into one work.
9781782396406 9781782396404
GBA748093 bnb
Bible--History.
Bible--Influence.
220
The Bible : the biography / Karen Armstrong. - London : Atlantic, 2007. - 302 p. ; 24 cm. - Books that shook the world. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Torah --
Scripture --
Gospel --
Midrash --
Charity --
Lectio divina --
Sola scriptura --
Modernity.
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. A work made up of sixty-six 'books' and divided into two Testaments, the Bible has been transformed by its various translations into a single work. This work presents an account, which discusses the conception, gestation, life and afterlife of the collection of 'books' to analyse how the scripture was collected into one work.
9781782396406 9781782396404
GBA748093 bnb
Bible--History.
Bible--Influence.
220