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Bible babel : making sense of the most talked about book of all time / Kristin Swenson.
Van Pelt Library BS475.3 .S846 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swenson, Kristin M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Introductions.
- Bible.
- Bible--Use.
- Genre:
- Introductions.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 343 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper, [2010]
- Contents:
- What is the Bible, anyway?
- Different Bibles and a hidden Bible, too
- As it is written : history in the Bible
- Contexts and culture: history behind the Bible
- Getting to the good book: history of the Bible
- What's the best translation?
- We've got issues
- Quotes and misquotes
- Men, famous and infamous
- Lovely (and not so) ladies
- Flora, fauna, etcetera
- Sites to be seen
- God names, beings, and doings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [286]-287) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780061728297
- 0061728292
- OCLC:
- 419857171
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