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The Rise And Fall Of The Bible
Timothy Beal
The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
April 2010
On Sale: April 1, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 0151013586
EAN: 9780151013586
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In this revelatory exploration of one of our most revered
icons, a critically acclaimed author and professor takes us
back to early Christianity to ask how a box of handwritten
scrolls became the Bible, and forward to see how the
multibillion-dollar business that has brought us Biblezines
and Manga Bibles is selling down the Bible’s sacred capital.
Showing us how a single official text was created from the
proliferation of different scripts, Beal traces its path as
it became embraced as the word of God and Book of books.
Among his surprising insights: • Christianity thrived
for centuries without any Bible—there was no official canon
of scriptures, much less a book big enough to hold them all.
Congregations used various collections of scrolls and
codices. • There is no “original” Bible, no
single source text behind the thousands of different Bibles
on the market today. The farther we go back in the Bible’s
history, the more versions we find. • The idea
of the Bible as the literal Word of God is relatively
new—only about a century old. Beal’s is
an inspiring new take on the Bible. In calling for a fresh
understanding of the ways scriptures were used in the past,
he offers the chance to rediscover a Bible, and a faith,
that is truer to its own history—not a book of answers but a
library of questions.
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