The Bible

A Biography

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG

Brief Description:
In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, and life 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 scripture came to be read for information, and how, in the nineteenth century, historical criticism of the Bible caused greater fear than Darwinism. "This is one terrific little book." - Booklist

Atlantic Monthly Press 2007 192 PP. Cloth

$21.95 (in stock)