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Summary: The Best history on the bible...
Review: I remember walking into the Christian bookstore and seeing this title. I figureit was worth reading. Not only did I love it, I recommend it every chance I get. I think the publishers should send out a second printing. It was very nice to see a book with full color pictures and written so anyone could understand it. Allthough I am a history buff this book taught me a few things. Look for it at used booksales and auctions.
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Summary: The Best history on the bible...
Review: I remember walking into the Christian bookstore and seeing this title. I figureit was worth reading. Not only did I love it, I recommend it every chance I get. I think the publishers should send out a second printing. It was very nice to see a book with full color pictures and written so anyone could understand it. Allthough I am a history buff this book taught me a few things. Look for it at used booksales and auctions.
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Summary: The Indestructible Book, The Bible, Its Translators and Thei
Review: I'm not a reader because of time, and presently this book is being read to me on a daily basis on the radio. I started late, a few days into the reading, but I wanted to get from the beginning. Unable to buy a copy because it's out of print, I had my local library track down a copy that I've just finished. Not being scholarly in the field myself, the book easily written and understandable. Not a history lover when I went to school certain points of history intrigue me now. This whole story of how the Bible came to be the book we have today is fascinating. the author Connolly starts in the first bunch of centurys and shows how the first books where agreed upon and as time passed what was accepted and what was heretical. Lotta people got toasted because of thier beliefs. Connolly jumps from the different countries and ties time periods of the reformation and people together that gives a large puzzle an amazing picture. Probably not everyones cup of tea but a well worth read if anyone has questions about how the Bible became what it is, and it is the largest selling book of all time.
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Summary: Very readable and highly informative
Review: This wonderful book is about the history of the Bible in general, and about the Bible in the English language in particular. Chock-full of brightly colored pictures, the book begins with a quick look at the Jewish scriptures and their collection into the Septuagint, and then launches into the history of Christianity and the birth of the Christian New Testament. The history of Christianity is followed, and with the coming of the Reformation, the book focuses in on England and the translation work the occurred there. At the end of the book, there is a quick look at later Bible translations, including the British Revised Version and the American Standard Version. As might be expected with such a small book covering such a potentially huge subject, this book is rather narrow in its scope. Also, Catholic readers will doubtlessly find the book's sympathetic look at the Protestant Reformation to be irritating. But, bearing in mind those limitations, this is a wonderful book! I found it very readable and highly informative, and I do not hesitate to recommend it to you.
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