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The Bible : The Biography

By:

Armstrong, Karen

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Series: Publication details: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Group West, 2007.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 302 pISBN:

0871139693
9780871139696

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DDC classification:

220.92 ARM

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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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Henry Martyn Institute Library General stacks	220.92 ARM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		11004940

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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