01289cam a22002417a 4500 0871139693 9780871139696 ENG 220.92 ARM Armstrong, Karen, The Bible : The Biography 1st American ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Group West, 2007. 302 p. ; Books that changed the world series 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. Bijbel. Exegese Jodendom. Christendom. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2010279702-d.html BK 0 0 0 0 HMI HMI GEN 2026-01-06 Christy Abraham 250.00 0 220.92 ARM 11004940 2026-01-06 2026-01-06 BK 23691 23691