A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collectio

In a clear and concise way, John Barton describes the development of the Bible. He explains how the Bible came to be written and collected into the authoritativ

A detailed study of the form and message of the Bible as a whole, along with carefully documented information on how, when, and why its diverse components were

Readers will gain even more appreciation for their Bible when they see how God directed its development, from the original authors through today’s translation