This biography of the Bible traces its story to reveal it as a complex and contradictory document created by scores of people over hundred of years. It explores the different ways in which the sixty-six books that make the Bible are understood, and identifies the social needs that they answer. Will permanently alter your understanding of the Bible. An extraordinary book…. This is not an obituary for the Bible, but a biography of a book that still lives, breathes and can preach the most essential of messages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong’s first book, the bestselling Through the Narrow Gate (1981), described her seven years as a nun in a Roman Catholic order. She has published numerous books, including A History of God, which has been translated into thirty languages, A History of Jerusalem and In the Beginning: A New Reading of Genesis. Her more recent works include Islam: A Short History and Buddha, which was an international bestseller. Since 1982 she has been a freelance writer and broadcaster. She lives in London.
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