The Book: A History of the Bible
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (904 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0714845248 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Even the back cover should win an award for the most imaginative, startling religion book jacket design in recent memory.) The narrative history of the Bible's many translations and editions is also captivating, particularly the closing chapter on 20th-century biblical discoveries such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library. From Publishers Weekly In the "unadulterated wow" category is the dazzling offering The Book: A History of the Bible by paleographist Christopher de Hamel, who served for a quarter century as the head of the Western Manuscripts department at Sotheby's in London. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Packed with full-color representations of illuminated manuscripts, ancient scrolls, stained glass windows and early published editions of the Bible, the art takes center stage here
Five Stars andy1243 a+++++. "One of the better overviews of the History of the Bible" according to Canon+Nikon. This work by Christopher de Hamel is a handsome volume that deals mainly with the history of the translated Bible in Western Europe. It is lushly illustrated throughout with colour plates of various ancient and mediaeval manuscripts, and Renaissance printed works. Much (more than half) of de H. Canon+Nikon said One of the better overviews of the History of the Bible. This work by Christopher de Hamel is a handsome volume that deals mainly with the history of the translated Bible in Western Europe. It is lushly illustrated throughout with colour plates of various ancient and mediaeval manuscripts, and Renaissance printed works. Much (more than half) of de H
Scholarly and authoritative, The Book provides a new, clear-sighted, thought-provoking and utterly gripping account of the origins and history of the world's most influential book. Christopher de Hamel writes as a historian. The Book: A History of the Bible tells for the first time the momentous story of the Bible as a book, tracing its publication in endless forms and numerous languages from its origins to the present day. Continuing with missionary Bibles, the emergence of the modern Bible publishing industry and the mass of twentieth-century translations and versions, it concludes with the modern discovery of papyrus fragments and Dead Sea Scrolls which have cast important new light on the origins of the Bible. The Bible is the most widely circulated book ever written. Without being evangelical or polemical, he bases his text scrupulously on actual surviving Bibles and the historical circumstances in which they were made. A compelling, highly readable, scrupulously factual and unbiased history of the Bible as a book, with over 200 rich, fascinating and varied illustrations of Bibles from all times and places. The clear and highly readable narrative includes an account of the Old and New Testaments in their original languages of Hebrew and Greek, the Latin Vulgate translation of Saint Jerome, the magnificent manus