A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book
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A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest.
A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest.
The ancient Greek word for “truth” means unconcealing or unforgetting. Yet today many ideas and stories that were once critical to how early Christians understood, practiced, and defended their faith often remain “hidden in plain sight” in our Bibles. These ideas are concealed from us by the distance between languages, between eras, and between cultures—yet they are so worth unconcealing and unforgetting. In this book, discover:
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The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spirituality
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