Bibliograph

The Bible, what everyone needs to know®, Michael Coogan

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The Bible, what everyone needs to know®, Michael Coogan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-183) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Bible

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1145894872

Responsibility statement

Michael Coogan

Series statement

What everyone needs to know

Sub title

what everyone needs to know®

Summary

"The Bible is the sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity. In its pages we encounter some of the most memorable characters in world literature: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Abraham and Sarah, Jacob, Moses, Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheba, Job, Jesus, and Paul; some of the most well-known religious texts: the Ten Commandments, the Shema, Psalm 23, and the Sermon on the Mount; and some of the most important concepts in theology: covenant, chosenness, sin, atonement, and salvation. Over the ages, the Bible has also had an enormous influence on politics, on literature and the arts, and even on medicine and science. The word "Bible" basically means "book." Although usually formatted as a single book, the Bible is actually a collection of shorter books written over the course of more than a thousand years, an anthology of texts that Jews and Christians have considered especially authoritative, even inspired-"holy writ." Put simply, for Jews the Bible is a collection of some twenty-four books that by the second century CE had a special status. For Christians, the Bible includes these books, and some other Jewish religious writings, which together were eventually called "the Old Testament"; to them were added another twenty-seven early Christian texts, known as "the New Testament." Behind these simple definitions, however, lie many complexities, both because of the Bible's long history of formation and because of the different faith communities that consider it canonical"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Bible and Bibles -- Languages, texts, and translations -- The contents of the Bible -- Authors and authorship -- The contexts of the Bible -- Interpretive strategies -- The uses of the Bible -- Biblical concepts -- Biblical values

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