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A History Of The Bible - The Book And Its Faiths (Hardcover)
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A History Of The Bible - The Book And Its Faiths (Hardcover)
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WINNER OF THE 2019 DUFF COOPER PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A
SUNDAY TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'With emotional and
psychological insight, Barton unlocks this sleeping giant of our
culture. In the process, he has produced a masterpiece.' Sunday
Times The Bible is the central book of Western culture. For the two
faiths which hold it sacred, it is the bedrock of their religion, a
singular authority on what to believe and how to live. For
non-believers too, it has a commanding status: it is one of the
great works of world literature, woven to an unparalleled degree
into our language and thought. This book tells the story of the
Bible, explaining how it came to be constructed and how it has been
understood, from its remote beginnings down to the present. John
Barton describes how the narratives, laws, proverbs, prophecies,
poems and letters which comprise the Bible were written and when,
what we know - and what we cannot know - about their authors and
what they might have meant, as well as how these extraordinarily
disparate writings relate to each other. His incisive readings shed
new light on even the most familiar passages, exposing not only the
sources and traditions behind them, but also the busy hands of the
scribes and editors who assembled and reshaped them. Untangling the
process by which some texts which were regarded as holy, became
canonical and were included, and others didn't, Barton demonstrates
that the Bible is not the fixed text it is often perceived to be,
but the result of a long and intriguing evolution. Tracing its
dissemination, translation and interpretation in Judaism and
Christianity from Antiquity to the rise of modern biblical
scholarship, Barton elucidates how meaning has both been drawn from
the Bible and imposed upon it. Part of the book's originality is to
illuminate the gap between religion and scripture, the ways in
which neither maps exactly onto the other, and how religious
thinkers from Augustine to Luther and Spinoza have reckoned with
this. Barton shows that if we are to regard the Bible as
'authoritative', it cannot be as believers have so often done in
the past.
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