TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reader's Digest
TI  - The Bible through the ages
SN  - 0895778726
AV  - REF BS 445 .B53 1996
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Pleasantville, NY
PB  - The Reader's Digest Association
KW  - Bible
KW  - History
KW  - Introductions
N1  - At head of title: Reader's Digest; Includes index; Contents; The Bible through the ages introduction --; Part One: The oral tradition --; 1. Timeline: 4000 to 1010 B.C. --; 2. The world of the patriarchs --; Patriarchal clans in the Fertile Crescent --; Everyday life in Sumer --; 3. Abraham and his God --; 4. Storytelling and the oral tradition --; 5. Stories in the oral tradition --; A tale within a tale --; 6. The birth of writing --; The development of cuneiform --; 7. The Egyptian sojourn --; The Egyptian Book of the Dead --; 8. Papyrus: Egypt's gift to writers --; The making of papyrus --; 9. Moses in Egypt --; From Israel and Egypt: Songs of praise and of faith in a single God --; 10. Moses and the law --; The oral law --; 11. Champions of the Promised Land --; Excerpts from the Song of Deborah. Part Two: The written word --; 1. Timeline: 1010 to 65 B.C. --; 2. A mighty kingdom --; 3. Poetry in the Old Testament --; Poetry of love and sadness --; 4. David and the Psalms --; 5. The temple and worship --; Autumn festival --; 6. Words of wisdom --; Words of wisdom from Israel and Egypt --; 7. Language of the Old Testament --; 8. The divided kingdom --; 9. Who were the prophets? --; Voices of the twelve --; 10. Oracles of Isaiah --; 11. Baruch and Jeremiah --; The seal of Jeremiah's scribe --; 12. The writing craft --; The making of parchment --; 13. The Babylonian captivity --; 14. Ezekiel: The voice of exile --; 15. Shaping the Pentateuch --; Mystery of the doublets --; A tapestry of words --; 16. Ezra: the second lawgiver --; The decree of Cyrus --; 17. The chronicler --; 18. Tales that inspire --; 19. The making of the Septuagint --; Alexandria --; 20. The Samaritan Pentateuch --; 21. Defining Daniel --; 22. Choosing the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible --; 23. What was left out --; 24. Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls --; Last days of Qumran --; Was John the Baptist an Essene? --; 25. Recovering the scrolls --; a picture essay. Part Three: Words of a new faith --; 1. Timeline: 65 B.C. to A.D. 400 --; 2. The world of Jesus --; Jesus and Roman Judea --; 3. The life and ministry of Jesus --; Jesus and the Hebrew Scriptures --; 4. Spreading the Good News --; The ministry of Philip --; 5. Apostle to the Gentile world --; Martyrdom of the apostles --; 6. Letter writing in the First Century --; The Letter of Paul to Philemon --; 7. Thessalonians and Galatians --; 8. Corinthians and Philippians --; Timothy and Titus --; 9. Romans, Colossians, Ephesians --; 10. Who wrote the "other" epistles? --; 11. Telling the story of Jesus --; The Gospel of Thomas --; 12. Language of the New Testament --; 13. The Gospel of Mark --; 14. The Gospel of Matthew --; 15. The Gospel of Luke and Acts --; The use of Mark's Gospel in Matthew and Luke --; 16. The Gospel and Letters of John --; Was there a signs source? --; 17. Present at the Apocalypse --; Apocalypse of Peter --; 18. Josephus --; Testimony on Jesus --; 19. Shaping the Mishnah --; The Talmud --; 20. Invention of the book --; A fourth-century codex --; 21. Apostolic fathers --; Collected works --; 22. Role of the BIble in early Christian worship --; Christian instruction --; 23. Christian popular literature --; 24. The early spread of Christianity --; 25. Early Christian art --; a picture essay --; 26. The Gnostic challenge --; A Gnostic find --; 27. Debating the New Testament canon --; 28. Revising the Septuagint --; The Targums --; 29. Origen and the Sixfold BIble --; 30. Early biblical interpretation --; 31. Establishing the Christian canon --; Canonical debate from the first century to the fourth. Part Four: Copying the Word --; 1. Timeline: 400 to 1455 --; 2. Jerome's majestic achievement --; Old Latin Bibles --; 3. Ulfilas among the Visigoths --; 4. Desert fathers --; 5. Pilgrimages --; Faith of Islam --; 6. Varying traditions --; 7. The Bible in the Eastern churches --; 8. Byzantine icons --; a picture essay --; 9. The Vernacular Bible in Europe --; 10. The Bible in the British Isles --; "Work of the angels" (The Book of Kells) --; The cross speaks --; 11. Lindisfarne Gospels --; a picture essay --; 12. Guardians of the scriptures --; Monastic libraries --; 13. A monk as a scribe --; Alcuin and the Franks --; 14. The art of illumination --; Working with gold leaf --; Women copyists and illuminators --; 15. Medieval bindings and luxury covers --; a picture essay --; 16. Books for private devotions --; 17. Hebrew scribes and illuminators --; Rules for scribes --; 18. New ways of studying scripture --; The Kabbala --; 19. Picture Bibles --; Art of the blockbook --; 20. Medieval worship --; Feast of our Lord --; 21. The cathedral as Bible --; a picture essay --; 22. Biblical drama --; 23. Poverty movements --; Dominic and his friars preachers --; 24. The Bible in the university --; 25. Wyclif and the Lollards --; Reform in Bohemia. Part Five: The printed Word --; 1. Timeline: 1455 to 2000 --; 2. The age of Gutenberg --; Papermaking --; Inside a 15th-century print shop --; 3. printed Bible decoration --; a picture essay --; 4. The impact of humanism --; The Council of Trent --; 5. Polyglot Bibles --; Christophe Plantin --; 6. Luther's Bible --; In Luther's words --; 7. The path toward an authorized English Bible --; Thomas Cromwell --; Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible --; Not-quite-right Bibles --; 8. King James Version --; The evolution of a Psalm --; Texts leading to and from the King James Version --; 9. Taking the Bible to the Far East --; 10. The Bible in Africa --; 11. Taking the Gospel to the New World --; 12. Apostles to the Indians --; 13. Bibles for a new nation --; Jefferson's Bible --; The Woman's BIble --; 14. The Bible and the family --; a picture essay --; 15. The Hebrew Bible in America --; 16. Slavery and the Bible --; Sisters against slavery --; 17. Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon --; 18. The Bible in the South Seas --; Catholics in Hawaii --; 19. The rise of the Bible societies --; The Gideons International --; 20. Translating scripture today --; A comparison of modern translations --; Standard texts for Old and New Testaments --; 21. Today's Bibles --; 22. Computers and the Bible --; 23. Modern biblical scholarship --; Cairo Genizah
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