01241cam a22002177a 4500020001500000020001800015041000800033082001600041100002200057245003000079250002100109260009800130300001300228490004000241520061900281650001200900650001200912650001400924650001700938856006800955  a0871139693  a9780871139696  aENG  a220.92bARM1 aArmstrong, Karen,14aThe Bible : The Biography  a1st American ed.  aNew York :bAtlantic Monthly Press ;a[Berkeley, Calif.] :bDistributed by Group West,c2007.  a302 p. ;1 aBooks that changed the world series  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.17aBijbel.17aExegese17aJodendom.17aChristendom.42uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2010279702-d.html