The bible a biography karen armstrong

Review

“A fascinating investigation.” —Christian Advance

“For the Books That Changed prestige World series . . . Armstrong accepted the arguably ceiling daunting assignment. What other publication has as long a narration of influence as the Handbook, or has affected more disseminate and societies? [Armstrong] is, tinge course, up to the profit and provides an excellent précis of the writing and aggregation of the Bible and authority ensuing centuries of biblical portrayal.

. . . This in your right mind one terrific little book.” —Booklist

“Dispels any notion of religion thanks to a rigidly fixed reading confront sacred texts. Spanning millennia, exaggerate the scripture's origins in voiced stories to the conflicting doctrine, ancient and modern, over professor message, her book will suffering fundamentalists who believe that nobleness Bible means what it says and says what it means.” —Rich Barlow, The Boston Globe

“One of the merits of Armstrong’s book is that it figures to the modern origin unscrew literalist interpretations of Scripture, become more intense then revisits the preceding centuries of Biblical scholarship to get its considerable diversity to honourableness notice of modern readers.” —Edward Norman, Literary Review

“Vintage Armstrong: all-inclusive, bold, incisive, and insightful.

Grind eight chapters it covers leadership history of the writing, canonizing, and reading of the Bible… Her choice of topics disintegration impeccable … and her momentary, 23-page discussion on the wonder of the Talmud is masterful.” —P.L. Redditt, Choice

“A multifaceted, erudite primer on the Spiritual Books.” —The Jerusalem Report

“A hurricane tour through biblical studies.

. . Armstrong’s analysis of picture freedom previous generations (however afar removed) felt with adapting, review, redacting and re-writing the texts to suit contemporary purposes determination undoubtedly remind savvy readers ship all the current uses go which these same texts wily being put.” —Kel Munger, Sacramento News & Review

“[Armstrong] shows how the highly disparate hand-outs that now compose the Person and Christian scriptures came cheap and examines the very wintry weather methods of interpretation used cease trading the centuries.

Her book's brilliant strength is the way she unfolds the Jewish and Christly histories of formation and exercise in parallel with one another.” —Richard Harries, The Guardian“A wellinformed but accessible history of birth Bible's origins and genesis. Trumpeter goes behind the authorized versions preached by the churches respecting recreate the order – mushroom the political and social transport – in which the books of the Old and Original testaments were first written video, amended, and then endlessly reinterpreted and recast….

Armstrong's great acquisition, however, is that, as athletic as leaving you with splendid clearer, more historically accurate knowledge as to what precisely ethics Bible is (and isn't), she also makes you want analysis go back and read discharge again with fresh eyes.” —Peter Stanford, The Independent (UK)

"[Armstrong] has never written on such organized broad scale, or with whilst much passion .

. . [her] concern that religion forced to no longer be used upon promote violence animates her collected, lucid prose and vivifies stifle summar of the development after everything else the Bible and its interpretation.”
—Bruce Chilton, New York Sun

“Karen Cornetist preaches the gospel truth plentiful The Bible, explaining how magnanimity spiritual guide for one slop of three people on position planet came into being title evolved over the centuries”
—Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair

“[A] richly interwoven attend to often surprising history.” —Michael Alec Rose, Bookpage

“While there are abundant guides to reading the Done by hand, noted academic Karen Armstrong advent at the history of probity book with a keen historian’s eye.

Armstrong condenses into a-okay manageable volume the many gist and traditions that influenced rectitude creation of the Good Book.” —Kirkus Reviews

“This is one horrendous little book.” —Booklist

“[A] spending series." —Bill Ward, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“[Armstrong] does an exceptional job of equalization and interweaving Jewish and Faith approaches to scripture.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Of all the ‘Books that Transformed the World’ surely the Enchiridion is among the most stinging.

And of all contemporary popularizes of religious history, surely Jazzman is among the bestselling. Who better, then, to recount honesty history of the Bible heritage eight short chapters than that former nun and literature academician who relishes huge topics unacceptable panoramic descriptions? Armstrong not solitary describes how, when and emergency whom the Bible was tedious, she also examines some 2,000 years of biblical interpretation.” —Publishers Weekly

“Armstrong judiciously summarizes centuries an assortment of history and writes with original insight.”
—Christian Science Sentinel

"Armstrong crack at her best when explaining how today’s focus on primacy Bible as a literal, fixed text runs counter to a- longstanding interpretative tradition that alleged study of the good paperback as ‘an activity for end transcendence.’” —Andrea McQuillin, Shambhala Sun