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Whose Bible Is It? A Short History of the Scriptures

Jaroslav Pelikan

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Description:No book has been more pored over, has been the subject of more commentary & controversy, or had more influence not only on religious beliefs but also on our culture & language. No book has been as widely read. But how did the bible become the book we know? Pelikan takes readers thru the book’s evolution from its earliest incarnation as oral tales to its modern existence in various iterations, translations & languages. From the earliest Hebrew texts & its appearance in Greek, then Latin, he explores the canonization of different bibles & why certain books were adopted by certain sects, as well as the development of the printing press, the translation into modern languages & varying schools of critical scholarship. Both a work of scholarship & a fascinating read, Whose Bible Is It? will be welcomed by the many fans of Elaine Pagels’s books & Adam Nicolson’s God’s Secretaries.PrefaceThe Bible, the whole Bible & nothing but the Bible?The God who speaks The truth in Hebrew-Moses speaking GreekBeyond written Torah: Talmud & continuing revelationThe law & the prophets fulfilled Formation of a second TestamentThe peoples of the Book Back to the sources The Bible only The Canon & the criticsA message for the whole human raceThe strange new world within the BibleAlternative canons of the Tanakh/Old Testament New TestamentNotes & Further ReadingWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Whose Bible Is It? A Short History of the Scriptures. To get started finding Whose Bible Is It? A Short History of the Scriptures, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: No book has been more pored over, has been the subject of more commentary & controversy, or had more influence not only on religious beliefs but also on our culture & language. No book has been as widely read. But how did the bible become the book we know? Pelikan takes readers thru the book’s evolution from its earliest incarnation as oral tales to its modern existence in various iterations, translations & languages. From the earliest Hebrew texts & its appearance in Greek, then Latin, he explores the canonization of different bibles & why certain books were adopted by certain sects, as well as the development of the printing press, the translation into modern languages & varying schools of critical scholarship. Both a work of scholarship & a fascinating read, Whose Bible Is It? will be welcomed by the many fans of Elaine Pagels’s books & Adam Nicolson’s God’s Secretaries.PrefaceThe Bible, the whole Bible & nothing but the Bible?The God who speaks The truth in Hebrew-Moses speaking GreekBeyond written Torah: Talmud & continuing revelationThe law & the prophets fulfilled Formation of a second TestamentThe peoples of the Book Back to the sources The Bible only The Canon & the criticsA message for the whole human raceThe strange new world within the BibleAlternative canons of the Tanakh/Old Testament New TestamentNotes & Further ReadingWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Whose Bible Is It? A Short History of the Scriptures. To get started finding Whose Bible Is It? A Short History of the Scriptures, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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