A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook release of A History of the Bible by John Barton, browse by Ralph Lister.

The Bible is the central book in Western culture, yet extraordinarily there is absolutely no proper history of it. This exceptional work, by one of the world’s leading Biblical scholars, offers a complete account of the way the various areas of the Bible came to be created; how some writings that have been thought to be holy became canonical and were included in the Bible, as well as others were not; what the about A History of the Bible: The Reserve and its own Faiths relationship can be of the various parts of the Bible to one another; and exactly how, once it became a stable text, the Bible has been disseminated and interpreted all over the world. It gives full weight to dialogue of the need for the Tanakh (Old Testament) in Judaism as with Christianity. In addition, it demonstrates the amount to which, unlike widespread perception, both Judaism and Christianity aren’t faiths drawn in the Bible text messages but from other sources and customs. It demonstrates if we are to respect the Bible as ‘authoritative’ it can’t be as believers have so often completed in the past.