The Bible: A Global History - Hardcover

Gordon, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1541619730 ISBN 13: 9781541619739

Verlag: Basic Books, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

A global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book.

“A marvelous work of scholarship and storytelling." ―Wall Street Journal

For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God, but its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. In The Bible, Bruce Gordon recounts the astounding story of the Bible’s journey around the globe and across more than two thousand years, showing how it has shaped and been shaped by changing beliefs and believers’ radically different needs. God speaks with one voice, but the people who receive it are scattered and divided―found in desert monasteries and Chinese house churches, in Byzantine cathedrals and Guatemalan villages.

Breathtakingly global in scope, The Bible tells the story of this sacred book through the stories of its many and diverse human encounters, revealing not a static text but a living, dynamic cultural force.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bruce Gordon is Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School and has an appointment in Yale’s department of history. He is the author of the biographies Calvin and Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet, and of a number of other books on the history of Christianity. Raised in Canada, he lives in Vermont.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1541619730
• ISBN 13: 9781541619739
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
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