A casual reader enters a bookshop looking for a Bible. However, not all the Bibles on display have the same contents! Some have more books than others, some are study editions, some use gender-free language. How did this come about? This Introduction works back through the processes by which the Bib
An introduction to the Bible
โ Scribed by Kugler, Robert A
- Publisher
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub.
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
xxv, 538 p. : 27 cm
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