01940cam a2200385 4500 480980709 TxAuBib 20070101120000.0 100609s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010279702 9780871139696 0871139693 (OCoLC)173847668 WIQ WIQ JP3 BAKER MR0 CPL BTCTA BUR NLGGC LMR H4N NOR TBS OBE CQU DLC TxAuBib Armstrong, Karen, 1944- The Bible : a biography / Karen Armstrong. 1st American ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. 302 p. ; 21cm. Books that changed the world (New York, N.Y.) Books that changed the world series Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-277) and indexes. 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. 20070101. Bible History. Bible Influence. Bijbel. Exegese. Jodendom. Christendom. Books that changed the world (New York, N.Y.) Books that changed the world series. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1502/2010279702-d.html Publisher description T3F