The Bible: An Introduction, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Jerry L. Sumney

Publisher: Fortress Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 463
Edition: 2
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

What is the Bible? How did it get to us? Why are translations so different? And what influence has the Bible had on culture? From its very first pages, The Bible: An Introduction, Second Edition offers clear answers to the most basic questions that first-time students and curious inquirers bring to the Bible.

Without presuming either prior knowledge of the Bible or a particular attitude toward it, Jerry L. Sumney uses straightforward language to lead the reader on an exploration of the Bible's contents and the history of its writings, showing how critical methods help readers understand what they find in the Bible.

This second edition offers revised chapters and auxiliary material and new discussions of biblical studies methods and the question of inspiration. Neither polemical nor apologetic, The Bible presents the biblical writings as the efforts of men and women in the past to understand their lives and their world in light of the ways they understood the divine.

✦ Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS AND BOXES
TIMELINE
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PART 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
PART 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
PART 3
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX
GLOSSARY
INDEX

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