The Bible is the most successful book ever written. For well over
1,000 years it has been the most widely circulated of all written
works, and it has affected the culture of more people than any
other book has done. It has influenced (and helped to create)
language, it is central to the history of literacy and literature,
and it has had more importance for the history of Western art than
any other text. The Book. A History of the Bible tells the story of
this extraordinary success, tracing the Bible's publication in
endless forms and numerous languages. chapters of this book deal
with manuscript Bibles, which include some of the most magnificent
books ever produced. The first chapter deals with the achievement
of Saint Jerome, whose Latin translation - the Vulgate - first gave
the Bible the definitive form it has retained ever since. Chapter 2
then looks back to the separate history of the Bible in its
original languages of Hebrew and Greek, after which the narrative
returns to document the gradual triumph of the Latin Vulgate, the
magnificent giant Bibles of the early Middle Ages, the Bible with
its monastic commentaries, the crucial development of the portable
Bible in the thirteenth century, and the vogue for splendid Bible
picture books. Chapter 7 tell the story of the famous Wycliffite
English Bibles, once condemned as heretical and now highly prized.
to Gutenberg and the first printed book - the celebrated 42-line
Bible. The narrative then leads on the humanist scholars, Martin
Luther and the Reformation, the Lutheran Bible and the
Protestant-led wave of translations of the Bible into other modern
languages, the development of a book publishing industry, and the
extraordinary efforts of missionary societies to translate the
Bible into every known language in the World. The last chapter
takes the story right back to the beginning, and chronicles the
discoveries by modern scholars and archaeologists - principally
papyrus fragments from the Egyptian desert and the Dead Sea Scrolls
- that have dramatically increased our knowledge of the origins of
both Old and New Testaments. He is also a scrupulous scholar.
Without being either evangelical or polemical, his precise, lucid
and highly informative narrative is solidly based on documentary
evidence. The result is a fascinating and deeply absorbing
narrative that will also have a lasting value as a work of
scholarship. Original, authoritative and highly readable, this book
is a genuine publishing first on a subject of the utmost
importance.
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