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245		2	_aA history of the Bible
260			_a _bPenguin Books, _c2020
300			_axvii, 613 p. _c20 cm.
500			_athe book and its faiths
505			_aIncludes index. _rIntroduction: The Bible today-- _rPART ONE The Old Testament-- _r1. Ancient Israel: history and language-- _r2. Hebrew narrative-- _r3. Law and wisdom-- _r4. Prophecy-- _r5. Poems and psalms-- _rPART TWO The New Testament-- _r6. Christian beginnings-- _r7. Letters-- _r8. Gospels-- _rPART THREE The Bible and its texts-- _r9. From books to scripture-- _r10. Christians and their books-- _r11. Official and unofficial texts-- _r12. Biblical manuscripts-- _rPART FOUR The meanings of the Bible-- _r13. The theme of the Bible-- _r14. Rabbis and Church fathers-- _r15. The Middle Ages-- _r16. The Reformation and its readings-- _r17. Since the enlightenment-- _r18. Translating the Bible-- _rConclusion: The Bible and faith--
520			_aThe Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two faiths which hold it sacred, it is the bedrock of their religion, a singular authority on what to believe and how to live. For non-believers too, it has a commanding status: it is one of the great works of world literature, woven to an unparalleled degree into our language and thought. ; ; This book tells the story of the Bible, explaining how it came to be constructed and how it has been understood, from its remote beginnings down to the present. John Barton describes how the narratives, laws, proverbs, prophecies, poems and letters which comprise the Bible were written and when, what we know - and what we cannot know - about their authors and what they might have meant, as well as how these extraordinarily disparate writings relate to each other. His incisive readings shed new light on even the most familiar passages, exposing not only the sources and traditions behind them, but also the busy hands of the scribes and editors who assembled and reshaped them. Untangling the process by which some texts which were regarded as holy, became canonical and were included, and others didn't, Barton demonstrates that the Bible is not the fixed text it is often perceived to be, but the result of a long and intriguing evolution. ; ; Tracing its dissemination, translation and interpretation in Judaism and Christianity from Antiquity to the rise of modern biblical scholarship, Barton elucidates how meaning has both been drawn from the Bible and imposed upon it. Part of the book's originality is to illuminate the gap between religion and scripture, the ways in which neither maps exactly onto the other, and how religious thinkers from Augustine to Luther and Spinoza have reckoned with this. Barton shows that if we are to regard the Bible as 'authoritative', it cannot be as believers have so often done in the past.
590			_bPreview available on Google Books.
630			_aBS THE BIBLE _92268
650		0	_aThe Bible _x History _92269
650			_aChristianity _x History _92270
700			_aBarton, John _eAuthor _92271
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