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• Title:The Bible : a global history / Bruce Gordon
  
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• Author/Creator:Gordon, Bruce, 1962- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Basic Books, 2024
  ©2024
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: BS445 .G67 2024
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Christianity.
  History.
  
• Subject(s):Bible--Influence--History.
  Bible--Use--History.
  Bible--History.
  Bible.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:viii, 514 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"A global history of the world's best-known and most influential book. For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus's departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and seen the Bible through its own language and culture. In The Bible, Bruce Gordon tells 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. The Bible has been a tool for violence and oppression, and it has expressed hopes for liberation. 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."--Publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-498) and index
  
• ISBN:9781541619739 (hbk)
  1541619730 (hbk)
  9781529383454 (UK ed?)
  1529383455 (UK ed?)
  
• Contents:Becoming a book
  Tongues of fire
  Manifestation of the Savior
  Book of Life : Medieval worlds
  Renaissance and Reformation
  Science and reason
  The King James Bible
  The Transatlantic Bible
  The American Bible
  Missions worldwide
  Shangdi and Shen in China
  African voices
  Global Pentecostalism
  "World without end".