The Bible : a biography / Karen Armstrong.
| Author/creator | Armstrong, Karen, 1944- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st American ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Atlantic Monthly ; [Berkeley, Calif.?] : Distributed by Group West, 2007. |
| Description | 302 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Books that changed the world series Books that changed the world (New York, N.Y.) ^A714540 |
| Contents | Torah -- Scripture -- Gospel -- Midrash -- Charity -- Lectio divina -- Sola scriptura -- Modernity. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-277) and indexes. |
| ISBN | 0871139693 |
| ISBN | 9780871139696 |