History

Average: 5 (1 vote)

Verily, Verily: The KJV - 400 Years of Influence and Beauty

Author: 
Jon M. Sweeney
List Price: 
$18.99
Type: 
Hardcover
Sweeny shows why the KJV has been the most important entry into the Christian scriptures for the English-speaking world.
Average: 5 (1 vote)

The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

Author: 
Timothy Beal
List Price: 
$25.00
Type: 
Hardcover
"Beal's exciting book offers both fascinating history and a new and insightful way to approach the 'sacred text'." -John Shelby Spong
Average: 5 (2 votes)

God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible

Author: 
Adam Nicolson
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$13.99
Type: 
Paperback
Adam Nicolson, in celebration of 400 years of the KJV, will be MassBible's 2011 Harrell F. Beck Lecturer.
Average: 5 (1 vote)

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

Author: 
Robert E. Putnam & David E. Campbell
List Price: 
$30.00
Type: 
Hardcover
American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America.
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Average: 5 (1 vote)

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible

Author: 
Robert Alter
List Price: 
$19.95
Type: 
Hardcover
The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning.
Average: 5 (3 votes)

Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine

Author: 
Scott Korb
List Price: 
$25.95
Type: 
Hardcover
A lively and illuminating portrait of the nearly unknown world of daily life in first-century Palestine.
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Average: 5 (1 vote)

God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run The World -- And Why Their Differences Matter

Author: 
Stephen Prothero
List Price: 
$26.99
Type: 
Hardcover
“A very much needed book!” (Miroslav Volf, Professor, Yale University, and author of Exclusion and Embrace )
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Average: 5 (1 vote)

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

Author: 
Lisa Miller
List Price: 
$25.99
Type: 
Hardcover
A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven
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Average: 5 (1 vote)

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

Author: 
Diarmaid MacCulloch
List Price: 
$25.00
Type: 
Paperback
The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Reformation returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time
Average: 5 (1 vote)

The God Question: What Famous Thinkers from Plato to Dawkins Have Said About the Divine

Author: 
Andrew Pessin
List Price: 
$14.95
Type: 
Paperback
"A really excellent book - next to faultless in its presentation." --Tim Mawson, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oxford