The Bible : a biography / Karen Armstrong.

By:

Armstrong, Karen, 1944-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Atlantic Books ; 2007.Description: 302 p. ; 21cmISBN:

9781843543978

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Contents:

Introduction -- 1. Torah -- 2. Scripture -- 3. Gospel -- 4. Midrash -- 5. Charity -- 6. Lectio divina -- 7. Sola scriptura -- 8. Modernity -- Epilogue -- Glossary of key terms -- Notes -- Index.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-277) and indexes.

Introduction -- 1. Torah -- 2. Scripture -- 3. Gospel -- 4. Midrash -- 5. Charity -- 6. Lectio divina -- 7. Sola scriptura -- 8. Modernity -- Epilogue -- Glossary of key terms -- Notes -- Index.

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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