A History Of The Bible: Book And Its Faiths Dr John Barton Penguin Books Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία Social Sciences Religion

Winner Of The 2019 Duff Cooper Prizea Sunday Times Bestseller\ With Emotional And Psychological Insight Barton Unlocks This Sleeping Giant Our Culture In Process He Has Produced A Masterpiece \ Timesthe Bible Is Central Book Western For Two Faiths Which Hold It Sacred Bedrock Their Religion Singular Authority On What To Believe How Live Non-Believers Too Commanding Status: One Great Works World Literature Woven An Unparalleled Degree Into Language Thought Tells Story Explaining Came Be Constructed Been Understood From Its Remote Beginnings Down Present John Describes Narratives Laws Proverbs Prophecies Poems Letters Comprise Were Written When We Know - Cannot About Authors They Might Have Meant As Well These Extraordinarily Disparate Writings Relate Each Other His Incisive Readings Shed New Light Even Most Familiar Passages Exposing Not Only Sources Traditions Behind Them But Also Busy Hands Scribes Editors Who Assembled Reshaped Untangling By Some Texts Regarded Holy Became Canonical Included Others Didn\ T Demonstrates That Fixed Text Often Perceived Result Long Intriguing Evolution Tracing Dissemination Translation Interpretation Judaism Christianity Antiquity Rise Modern Biblical Scholarship Elucidates Meaning Both Drawn Imposed Upon Part Book\ S Originality Illuminate Gap Between Scripture Ways Neither Maps Exactly Onto Religious Thinkers Augustine Luther Spinoza Reckoned Shows If Are Regard Authoritative\ Believers So Done Past Σελίδες: 640 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm