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How the Bible was built / Charles Merrill Smith, James W. Bennett.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., c2005.Description: xi, 97 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0802829430 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780802829436 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.09 22
LOC classification:
  • BS445 .S58 2005
Contents:
Old Testament: What's so special about the Book of Deuteronomy? -- What is the Pentateuch? -- The story of the Samaritans -- The prophets and their message -- Former prophets and latter prophets -- The Apocrypha (15 books): The significance of the Apocrypha and are they holy scripture? -- The apocrypha and Christianity -- The New Testament: The Q Document -- Mark, Matthew, Luke, John: Why were these four books perceived as holy scripture? -- What about the book of Acts? -- Letters of Paul -- The Catholic letters and the letters of John -- The canon: or, Who said "This is the official Bible?" -- The Council of Jamnia -- Origen's New Testament -- The New Testament of Eusebius -- Athanasius -- Jerome -- Gutenberg closes the canon -- Translating the Bible into English: Wyclif's Bible -- William Tyndale -- Opposition to English translations -- The Coverdale Bible -- The invention of Bible verses -- Nicknaming Bibles -- The King James translation -- Other English translations -- Hebrew poetry and common Greek -- Recent revisions and paraphrases -- Are all these revisions necessary? -- Biblical terms you need to know -- A Bible history timeline.
Review: "The Bible continues to be the world's runaway best-seller. But very few people could say just how its seemingly disparate jumble of writings - stories, letters, poems, collections of laws, religious visions - got there.Summary: Filling this knowledge gap, How the Bible Was Built clearly tells the story of how the Bible came to be."--BOOK JACKET.
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Old Testament: What's so special about the Book of Deuteronomy? -- What is the Pentateuch? -- The story of the Samaritans -- The prophets and their message -- Former prophets and latter prophets -- The Apocrypha (15 books): The significance of the Apocrypha and are they holy scripture? -- The apocrypha and Christianity -- The New Testament: The Q Document -- Mark, Matthew, Luke, John: Why were these four books perceived as holy scripture? -- What about the book of Acts? -- Letters of Paul -- The Catholic letters and the letters of John -- The canon: or, Who said "This is the official Bible?" -- The Council of Jamnia -- Origen's New Testament -- The New Testament of Eusebius -- Athanasius -- Jerome -- Gutenberg closes the canon -- Translating the Bible into English: Wyclif's Bible -- William Tyndale -- Opposition to English translations -- The Coverdale Bible -- The invention of Bible verses -- Nicknaming Bibles -- The King James translation -- Other English translations -- Hebrew poetry and common Greek -- Recent revisions and paraphrases -- Are all these revisions necessary? -- Biblical terms you need to know -- A Bible history timeline.

"The Bible continues to be the world's runaway best-seller. But very few people could say just how its seemingly disparate jumble of writings - stories, letters, poems, collections of laws, religious visions - got there.

Filling this knowledge gap, How the Bible Was Built clearly tells the story of how the Bible came to be."--BOOK JACKET.

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