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A Biography
Atlantic Monthly Press
November 2007
On Sale: November 10, 2007
192 pages
ISBN: 0871139693
EAN: 9780871139696
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
As the work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the
spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the
world. It is also the world’s most widely distributed book,
translated into over two thousand languages, and the world’s
best selling book, year after year. But the Bible is a
complex work with a complicated and obscure history. Made up
of sixty-six “books” written by various authors and divided
into two testaments, its contents have changed over the
centuries. The Bible has been transformed by translation
and, through interpretation, has developed manifold meanings
to various religions, denominations, and sects. In this
seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong
discusses the conception, gestation, and life 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 scripture came
to be read for information, and how, in the nineteenth
century, historical criticism of the Bible caused greater
fear than Darwinism. This is a brilliant, captivating book,
crucial in an age of declining faith and rising fundamentalism.
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