A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

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

The Bible is the central book …

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