The Bible: A Global History - Bruce Gordon

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First Edition, Basic Books, 2024, Large-format Paperback - Christianity - 514pp. ISBN 9781529383454. AS NEW.

A marvelous work of scholarship and storytelling" (Wall Street Journal), offering a global history of the worlds best-known and most influential book. Breathtakingly global in scope, The Bible tells the story of this sacred book through the stories of its many and diverse human encounters, revealing not a static text but a living, dynamic cultural force.

For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesuss departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and seen the Bible through its own language and culture.   

In The Bible, Bruce Gordon tells the astounding story of the Bibles journey around the globe and across more than two thousand years, showing how it has shaped and been shaped by changing beliefs and believers radically different needs. The Bible has been a tool for violence and oppression, and it has expressed hopes for liberation. God speaks with one voice, but the people who receive it are scattered and dividedfound in desert monasteries and Chinese house churches, in Byzantine cathedrals and Guatemalan villages. 

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