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001 2010279702
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050 00 $aBS450$b.A76 2007
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100 1 $aArmstrong, Karen,$d1944-
245 14 $aThe Bible :$ba biography /$cKaren Armstrong.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press ;$a[Berkeley, Calif.] :$bDistributed by Group West,$c2007.
300 $a302 p. ;$c21cm.
490 1 $aBooks that changed the world series
505 00 $tIntroduction --$g1.$tTorah --$g2.$tScripture --$g3.$tGospel --$g4.$tMidrash --$g5.$tCharity --$g6.$tLectio divina --$g7.$tSola scriptura --$g8.$tModernity --$tEpilogue --$tGlossary of key terms --$tNotes --$tIndex.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-277) and indexes.
520 $aReligious 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.
630 00 $aBible$xHistory.
630 00 $aBible$xInfluence.
650 17 $aBijbel.$2gtt
650 17 $aExegese$2gtt
650 17 $aJodendom.$2gtt
650 17 $aChristendom.$2gtt
830 0 $aBooks that changed the world (New York, N.Y.)