A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by John Barton

A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

John Barton

640 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Chri...

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