TY  - BOOK
AU  - Armstrong,Karen
TI  - The Bible: a biography 
T2  - Books that changed the world series
SN  - 0871139693
AV  - BS450 .A763 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York, [Berkeley, Calif.?]
PB  - Atlantic Monthly, Distributed by Group West
KW  - Bible
KW  - History
KW  - Influence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-277) and indexes; Torah -- Scripture -- Gospel -- Midrash -- Charity -- Lectio divina -- Sola scriptura -- Modernity
N2  - Religious historian Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, life, and afterlife of history's most powerful book. Armstrong analyzes the social and political situation in which oral history turned into written scripture, how this all-pervasive scripture was collected into one work, and how it became accepted as Christianity's sacred text. She explores how "as the pragmatic scientific ethos of modernity took hold, scripture was read for the information that it imparted" and how, in the nineteenth century, historical criticism of the Bible caused greater fear than Darwinism.--From publisher description
ER  -