Dr John Barton

A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation—how it came to be written, how its contents were selected—and how it really relates to the religions that endorse it. This book tells the story of the Bible, how it came to be constructed and how it has been understood, from its remote beginnings down to the present. It describes how the...

An exhilarating exploration of the medium through which almost everyone has encountered scripture. The Bible is held to be both universal and specific, the source of fundamental truths inscribed in words that are exact and sacred. For much of Jewish and almost all of Christian history, however, most believers have understood scripture not in the languages in which it was...