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Don't know much about the Bible : everything you need to know about the Good Book but never learned / Kenneth C. Davis.
LIBRA BS445 .D35 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Kenneth C.
- Series:
- Davis, Kenneth C. Don't know much.
- Don't know much
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Introductions.
- Bible.
- Genre:
- Introductions.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 533 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial, 2001.
- Summary:
- With wit, wisdom, and an extraordinary talent for turning dry, difficult reading into colorful and realistic accounts, the creator of the bestselling Don't Know Much About series now brings the world of the Old and New testaments to life as no one else can in the bestseller Don't Know Much About The Bible. Relying on new research and improved translations, Davis uncovers some amazing questions and contradictions about what the Bible really says. Jericho's walls may have tumbled down because the city lies on a fault line. Moses never parted the Red Sea. There was a Jesus, but he wasn't born on Christmas and he probably wasn't an only child.
- Davis brings readers up-to-date on findings gleaned from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Gnostic Gospels that prompt serious scholars to ask such serious questions as: Who wrote the Bible? Did Jesus say everything we were taught he did? Did he say more? By examining the Bible historically, Davis entertains and amazes, provides a much better understanding of the subject, and offers much more fun learning about it.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Whose Bible Is It Anyway? 1
- Part 2 The Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament 35
- Two Creations ... No Apple (Genesis) 37
- Let My People Go (Exodus) 95
- Forty Years on the Road (Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) 131
- Over the River (Joshua) 145
- Why, Why, Why, Delilah? (Judges, Ruth) 159
- Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crown ... Part 1 (1 & 2 Samuel) 171
- Uneasy Lies the Head ... Part 2 (1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Lamentations) 185
- Eight Men Out (The Pre-Exile Prophets) 217
- Amos 220
- Hosea 222
- Isaiah 223
- Micah 228
- Nahum 228
- Zephaniah 230
- Habakkuk 232
- Jeremiah 232
- You Can Go Home Again (Ezra, Nehemiah) 235
- From Dry Bones to Fish Bellies (The Post-Exile Prophets) 245
- Ezekiel 248
- Haggai 252
- Zechariah 253
- Malachi 254
- Obadiah 256
- Joel 256
- Jonah 258
- A Godless Book (Esther) 261
- The Devil Made Me Do It (Job) 265
- Out of the Mouths of Babes (Psalms) 273
- Happy Are Those Who Find Wisdom (Proverbs) 285
- Nothing New Under the Sun (Ecclesiastes) 295
- The Love Machine, Another Godless Book (Song of Solomon) 301
- Hebrew 1-Lions 0 (Daniel) 311
- Between the Books (The Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical Books) 317
- Part 3 The New Testament 327
- The World According to Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) 347
- Jesus Is Coming
- Look Busy (Acts of the Apostles) 419
- You Have Mail! (The Epistles of Paul) 433
- The "Pastoral Letters" (1 & 2 Timothy, Titus) 445
- More Mail (The General Epistles) 449
- Apocalypse Now? (Revelation) 459
- Afterword: Whose God Is It Anyway? 467
- Appendix 1 The Ten Commandments 475
- Appendix 2 The Twenty-third Psalm 479
- Appendix 3 The Lord's Prayer 483
- Appendix 4 The Prologue to John's Gospel 487.
- Notes:
- "First Avon Books edition published 1999."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [497]-505) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0380728397
- OCLC:
- 48755895
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