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Summary: Excellent Reference!
Review: A perfect show of the historicity of certain subjects of the bible, and the obserdity of others! This has true merit and evidence, and would be good to use as a reference for further books on the bible or christianity! I love its secular humanist taiste, and its illustration for the bible's literary beauty.
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Summary: VERY INTERESTING
Review: A REAL PAGE TURNER,GREAT IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE BACKGROUND OF BIBLICAL EVENTS.
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Summary: The No-Jive Bible Commentary
Review: Asimov brings his erudition to bear on the world's best-selling book. Two volumes distill the scholarship of hundreds of Bible historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, leaving a readable and understandable, concise, and relatively complete summary of the realities of the Bible. Appealing as a reference or as general reading, and despite its secular frame of reference, no anti-religious bias can be detected. Excellent.
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Summary: Pure drivel
Review: Asimov is no scholar of the Bible, and this book is painful evidence of that fact. This book should be titled: "A Non-Scholarly Guide to Outlandish Speculations on a Subject About Which the Writer Knows Absolutely Nothing."If you want scholarly writing on the Bible, read authors such as Bruce M. Metzger, Robert H. Stein, Leon Morris, F.F. Bruce, John Stott, D.A. Carson, Raymond E. Brown, and others of similar stature and scholarship.
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Summary: Excellent refernece material.
Review: Asimov provides an excellent backdrop of historical data and literary criticism in this guide to the Bible. The book is fascinating, addictive, easy to read, and fun. I highly recommend it. As for those religious fanatics who slam it for it's heresies, I say unto you, "wake up!" Faith is for fools. Forget all the myths and magic and use this book to explore WHO wrote the Bible and WHY they wrote the things they wrote. God had nothing to do with it! However, in defense of those Bible thumpers, I will say this: whenever I read a "scholarly" academic book like this and discover that there are no footnotes or bibliography, I get very annoyed. Still, it's a good read.
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Summary: tired 'higher criticism' rehash
Review: Asimov was indeed one of the great fiction writers of our time, as well as a capable chemist. But Bible scholar? If anything, this book is a good study in secular humanism's approach to the Bible. However, good objective Biblical scholarship this isn't. Within its pages, are many of the arguments made by the 'higher criticism' camp of the late 19th and early 20th century. Even in it's 1992 rewritten form it overlooks several recent archeological findings and still manages to mangle the greek. In plain English, this book preaches to the choir of skeptics.
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Summary: Everything you should want to know about the Bible.
Review: Good book. Very informative and interesting. Gives a sort of "behind-the-scenes" approach to the bible. Fills in much of the who's who and adds much needed historical context to the otherwise vague biblical stories. Some parts are a bit slow and dry, but these parts correspond accordingly to some of the bible's drier parts. Heresy or not, I preferred reading this to the Good Book itself. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Beware, Asimov fans.
Review: I am a great admirer of the Late Doctor Asimov. The man had an incredible talent for clear, effective writing, and incredible ideas. Usually I find his non fiction to be atleast as effective and as inspiring as his non fiction. However, this is not the case with his Guide to the Bible. Don't get me wrong... Asimov achieved everything he set up to do. he exploars the 'real' espects of the bible. However, that is not what I find interesting in the bible. to tell you the truth, I don't care about the origin of every name, and about the places in which each event took place(Asimov does not, in my opinion, stresses enough the fictious nature of the Bible). I'm more interested in the moral and ethical points of the bible, and in its history. In the book, there are some interesting ancedotes and facets about that. However, those are hidden between pages on pages describing the places and names, etc. If that's what you're interested in, this is the perfect book for you. I, alas, was disappointed.
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Summary: holy bible the publisher thomas liddell
Review: i have a holy bible the first page brown,s self-interpreting family bible containing the OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS; by the late
REV. JOHN BROWN, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT HADDINGTON
with many additional references and a life of the author
WITH NUMEROUS COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS IN OIL AND ON STEEL
BIBLE WAS BORN IN THE YEAR 1722 IN THE VILLAGE OF CARPOW IN THE PARISH OF ABERNETHY AND COUNTY OF PERTH
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Summary: holy bible the publisher thomas liddell
Review: i have a holy bible the first page brown,s self-interpreting family bible containing the OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS; by the late
REV. JOHN BROWN, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT HADDINGTON
with many additional references and a life of the author
WITH NUMEROUS COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS IN OIL AND ON STEEL
BIBLE WAS BORN IN THE YEAR 1722 IN THE VILLAGE OF CARPOW IN THE PARISH OF ABERNETHY AND COUNTY OF PERTH
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