Books That Changed the World: The Bible : A Biography (Hardcover)

from rodrichards

Karen Armstrong is a great purveyor/interpreter/teacher of religious history and this book (an awe-inspiring task, to write a "biography" of the Bible in a couple hundred pages) is no exception. She concentrates on the liberality in methods of interpretation that were encouraged throughout histor...

from johnthefireman

This is an essential read for anyone who wishes to understand the bible. It is very readable, "popular" even, but nevertheless quite scholarly. It will be bad news for those who wish to read the bible in a literal or fundamentalist manner, but good news for Christians who see the bible as a livin...

from rodrichards

Karen Armstrong is a great purveyor/interpreter/teacher of religious history and this book (an awe-inspiring task, to write a "biography" of the Bible in a couple hundred pages) is no exception. She concentrates on the liberality in methods of interpretation that were encouraged throughout histor...

from ffortsa

This book is more or less a survey of the history of all the various components and possible authors of both the Old and New Testament, along with the various Jewish commentaries. I found it interesting, but now I'll need to go into some of these subjects in more depth. One set of ideas, however,...

from rodrichards

Karen Armstrong is a great purveyor/interpreter/teacher of religious history and this book (an awe-inspiring task, to write a "biography" of the Bible in a couple hundred pages) is no exception. She concentrates on the liberality in methods of interpretation that were encouraged throughout histor...