A History of the Bible: The Book and its Faiths (Record no. 297107)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 02060nam a22001577a 4500
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780241003916
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 220.09 BAR-H
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name John Barton
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A History of the Bible: The Book and its Faiths
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Allen Lane / Penguin Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 613 pages ; 24 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction: The bible today -- Part one. The old testament: 1. Ancient Israel: History and language ; 2. Hebrew narrative ; 3. Law and wisdom ; 4. Prophecy ; 5. Poems and psalms -- Part two. The new testament: 6. Christian beginnings ; 7. Letters ; 8. Gospels -- Part three. The bible and its texts: 9. From books to scripture ; 10. Christians and their books ; 11. Official and unofficial texts ; 12. Biblical manuscripts -- Part four. The meaning of the bible: 13. The theme of the bible ; 14. Rabbis and church fathers ; 15. The middle ages ; 16. The reformation and its readings ; 17. Since the enlightenment ; 18. Translating the bible -- Conclusion: The bible and faith.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The Bible is the central book in Western culture, yet extraordinarily there is no proper history of it. This exceptional work, by one of the world's leading Biblical scholars, provides a full account of how the different parts of the Bible came to be written; how some writings which were regarded as holy became canonical and were included in the Bible, and others were not; what the relationship is of the different parts of the Bible to each other; and how, once it became a stable text, the Bible has been disseminated and interpreted around the world. It gives full weight to discussion of the importance of the Tanakh (Old Testament) in Judaism as in Christianity. It also demonstrates the degree to which, contrary to widespread belief, both Judaism and Christianity are not faiths drawn from the Bible texts but from other sources and traditions. It shows that if we are to regard the Bible as 'authoritative' it cannot be as believers have so often done in the past.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Bible -- History.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Book
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 28/06/2019   220.09 BAR-H DCB3755 28/06/2019 28/06/2019 Book