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041 _aENG
082 _a220.92
_bARM
100 1 _aArmstrong, Karen,
245 1 4 _aThe Bible : The Biography
250 _a1st American ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bAtlantic Monthly Press ;
_a[Berkeley, Calif.] :
_bDistributed by Group West,
_c2007.
300 _a302 p. ;
490 1 _aBooks that changed the world series
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.
650 1 7 _aBijbel.
650 1 7 _aExegese
650 1 7 _aJodendom.
650 1 7 _aChristendom.
856 4 2 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2010279702-d.html
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