000			01808cam a2200361Ia 4500
001			173847668
003			OCoLC
005			20190729103252.0
008			071009s2007 nyu b 001 0 eng d
020			_a0871139693
020			_a9780871139696
035			_a(OCoLC)173847668
040			_aWIQ _cWIQ _dJP3 _dBAKER _dMR0 _dCPL _dBTCTA _dBUR
049			_aEY8Z
050	1	4	_aBS450 _b.A763 2007
092			_a220
100	1		_aArmstrong, Karen, _d1944-
245	1	4	_aThe Bible : _ba biography / _cKaren Armstrong.
250			_a1st American ed.
260			_aNew York : _bAtlantic Monthly ; _a[Berkeley, Calif.?] : _bDistributed by Group West, _c2007.
300			_a302 p. ; _c21 cm.
490	1		_aBooks that changed the world series.
505	0		_aTorah -- Scripture -- Gospel -- Midrash -- Charity -- Lectio divina -- Sola scriptura -- Modernity.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-277) and indexes.
520			_aReligious 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.
630	0	0	_aBible _xHistory.
630	0	0	_aBible _xInfluence.
830		0	_aBooks that changed the world (New York, N.Y.)
948			_au184120
949			_aBS450 .A763 2007 _wLC _c1 _hEY8Z _i33039001007219
596			_a1
903			_a12087
999			_c12087 _d12087