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catalog abstract ""From papyrus to CD-ROM, the story of how the Bible came to be."--Cover.".
catalog alternative "Reader's Digest Bible through the ages".
catalog alternative "Reader's digest.".
catalog created "c1996.".
catalog date "1996".
catalog date "c1996.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
catalog description ""From papyrus to CD-ROM, the story of how the Bible came to be."--Cover.".
catalog description "Part Five: The printed Word -- 1. Timeline: 1455 to 2000 -- 2. The age of Gutenberg -- Papermaking -- Inside a 15th-century print shop -- 3. printed Bible decoration -- a picture essay -- 4. The impact of humanism -- The Council of Trent -- 5. Polygot Bibles -- Christophe Plantin -- 6. Luther's Bible -- In Luther's words -- 7. The path toward an authorized English Bible -- Thomas Cromwell -- Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible -- Not-quite-right Bibles -- 8. King James Version -- The evolution of a Psalm -- Texts leading to and from the King James Version -- 9. Taking the Bible to the Far East -- 10. The Bible in Africa -- 11. Taking the Gospel to the New World -- 12. Apostles to the Indians -- 13. Bibles for a new nation -- Jefferson's Bible -- The Woman's BIble -- 14. The Bible and the family -- a picture essay -- 15. The Hebrew Bible in America -- 16. Slavery and the Bible -- Sisters against slavery -- 17. Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon -- 18. The Bible in the South Seas -- Catholics in Hawaii -- 19. The rise of the Bible societies -- The Gideons International -- 20. Translating scripture today -- A comparison of modern translations -- Standard texts for Old and New Testaments -- 21. Today's Bibles -- 22. Computers and the Bible -- 23. Modern biblical scholarship -- Cairo Genizah.".
catalog description "Part Four: Copying the Word -- 1. Timeline: 400 to 1455 -- 2. Jerome's majestic achievement -- Old Latin Bibles -- 3. Ulfilas among the Visigoths -- 4. Desert fathers -- 5. Pilgrimages -- Faith of Islam -- 6. Varying traditions -- 7. The Bible in the Eastern churches -- 8. Byzantine icons -- a picture essay -- 9. The Vernacular Bible in Europe -- 10. The Bible in the British Isles -- "Work of the angels" (The Book of Kells) -- The cross speaks -- 11. Lindisfarne Gospels -- a picture essay -- 12. Guardians of the scriptures -- Monastic libraries -- 13. A monk as a scribe -- Alcuin and the Franks -- 14. The art of illumination -- Working with gold leaf -- Women copyists and illuminators -- 15. Medieval bindings and luxury covers -- a picture essay -- 16. Books for private devotions -- 17. Hebrew scribes and illuminators -- Rules for scribes -- 18. New ways of studying scripture -- The Kabbala -- 19. Picture Bibles -- Art of the blockbook -- 20. Medieval worship -- Feast of our Lord -- 21. The cathedral as Bible -- a picture essay -- 22. Biblical drama -- 23. Poverty movements -- Dominic and his friars preachers -- 24. The Bible in the university -- 25. Wyclif and the Lollards -- Reform in Bohemia".
catalog description "Part Three: Words of a new faith -- 1. Timeline: 65 B.C. to A.D. 400 -- 2. The world of Jesus -- Jesus and Roman Judea -- 3. The life and ministry of Jesus -- Jesus and the Hebrew Scriptures -- 4. Spreading the Good News -- The ministry of Philip -- 5. Apostle to the Gentile world -- Martyrdom of the apostles -- 6. Letter writing in the First Century -- The Letter of Paul to Philemon -- 7. Thessalonians and Galatians -- 8. Corinthians and Philippians -- Timothy and Titus -- 9. Romans, Colossians, Ephesians -- 10. Who wrote the "other" epistles? -- 11. Telling the story of Jesus -- The Gospel of Thomas -- 12. Language of the New Testament -- 13. The Gospel of Mark -- 14. The Gospel of Matthew -- 15. The Gospel of Luke and Acts -- The use of Mark's Gospel in Matthew and Luke -- 16. The Gospel and Letters of John -- Was there a signs source? -- 17. Present at the Apocalypse -- Apocalypse of Peter -- 18. Josephus -- Testimony on Jesus -- 19. Shaping the Mishnah -- The Talmud -- 20. Invention of the book -- A fourth-century codex -- 21. Apostolic fathers -- Collected works -- 22. Role of the BIble in early Christian worship -- Christian instruction -- 23. Christian popular literature -- 24. The early spread of Christianity -- 25. Early Christian art -- a picture essay -- 26. The Gnostic challenge -- A Gnostic find -- 27. Debating the New Testament canon -- 28. Revising the Septuagint -- The Targums -- 29. Origen and the Sixfold BIble -- 30. Early biblical interpretation -- 31. Establishing the Christian canon -- Canonical debate from the first century to the fourth".
catalog description "Part Two: The written word -- 1. Timeline: 1010 to 65 B.C. -- 2. A mighty kingdom -- 3. Poetry in the Old Testament -- Poetry of love and sadness -- 4. David and the Psalms -- 5. The temple and worship -- Autumn festival -- 6. Words of wisdom -- Words of wisdom from Israel and Egypt -- 7. Language of the Old Testament -- 8. The divided kingdom -- 9. Who were the prophets? -- Voices of the twelve -- 10. Oracles of Isaiah -- 11. Baruch and Jeremiah -- The seal of Jeremiah's scribe -- 12. The writing craft -- The making of parchment -- 13. The Babylonian captivity -- 14. Ezekiel: The voice of exile -- 15. Shaping the Pentateuch -- Mystery of the doublets -- A tapestry of words -- 16. Ezra: the second lawgiver -- The decree of Cyrus -- 17. The chronicler -- 18. Tales that inspire -- 19. The making of the Septuagint -- Alexandria -- 20. The Samaritan Pentateuch -- 21. Defining Daniel -- 22. Choosing the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible -- 23. What was left out -- 24. Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Last days of Qumran -- Was John the Baptist an Essene? -- 25. Recovering the scrolls -- a picture essay".
catalog description "The Bible through the ages introduction -- Part One: The oral tradition -- 1. Timeline: 4000 to 1010 B.C. -- 2. The world of the patriarchs -- Patriarchal clans in the Fertile Crescent -- Everyday life in Sumer -- 3. Abraham and his God -- 4. Storytelling and the oral tradition -- 5. Stories in the oral tradition -- A tale within a tale -- 6. The birth of writing -- The development of cuneiform -- 7. The Egyptian sojourn -- The Egyptian Book of the Dead -- 8. Papyrus: Egypt's gift to writers -- The making of papyrus -- 9. Moses in Egypt -- From Israel and Egypt: Songs of praise and of faith in a single God -- 10. Moses and the law -- The oral law -- 11. Champions of the Promised Land -- Excerpts from the Song of Deborah".
catalog extent "384 p. :".
catalog identifier "0895778726".
catalog issued "1996".
catalog issued "c1996.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association,".
catalog subject "220/.09 20".
catalog subject "BS445 .B457 1996".
catalog subject "Bible History.".
catalog subject "Bible Introductions.".
catalog tableOfContents "Part Five: The printed Word -- 1. Timeline: 1455 to 2000 -- 2. The age of Gutenberg -- Papermaking -- Inside a 15th-century print shop -- 3. printed Bible decoration -- a picture essay -- 4. The impact of humanism -- The Council of Trent -- 5. Polygot Bibles -- Christophe Plantin -- 6. Luther's Bible -- In Luther's words -- 7. The path toward an authorized English Bible -- Thomas Cromwell -- Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible -- Not-quite-right Bibles -- 8. King James Version -- The evolution of a Psalm -- Texts leading to and from the King James Version -- 9. Taking the Bible to the Far East -- 10. The Bible in Africa -- 11. Taking the Gospel to the New World -- 12. Apostles to the Indians -- 13. Bibles for a new nation -- Jefferson's Bible -- The Woman's BIble -- 14. The Bible and the family -- a picture essay -- 15. The Hebrew Bible in America -- 16. Slavery and the Bible -- Sisters against slavery -- 17. Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon -- 18. The Bible in the South Seas -- Catholics in Hawaii -- 19. The rise of the Bible societies -- The Gideons International -- 20. Translating scripture today -- A comparison of modern translations -- Standard texts for Old and New Testaments -- 21. Today's Bibles -- 22. Computers and the Bible -- 23. Modern biblical scholarship -- Cairo Genizah.".
catalog tableOfContents "Part Four: Copying the Word -- 1. Timeline: 400 to 1455 -- 2. Jerome's majestic achievement -- Old Latin Bibles -- 3. Ulfilas among the Visigoths -- 4. Desert fathers -- 5. Pilgrimages -- Faith of Islam -- 6. Varying traditions -- 7. The Bible in the Eastern churches -- 8. Byzantine icons -- a picture essay -- 9. The Vernacular Bible in Europe -- 10. The Bible in the British Isles -- "Work of the angels" (The Book of Kells) -- The cross speaks -- 11. Lindisfarne Gospels -- a picture essay -- 12. Guardians of the scriptures -- Monastic libraries -- 13. A monk as a scribe -- Alcuin and the Franks -- 14. The art of illumination -- Working with gold leaf -- Women copyists and illuminators -- 15. Medieval bindings and luxury covers -- a picture essay -- 16. Books for private devotions -- 17. Hebrew scribes and illuminators -- Rules for scribes -- 18. New ways of studying scripture -- The Kabbala -- 19. Picture Bibles -- Art of the blockbook -- 20. Medieval worship -- Feast of our Lord -- 21. The cathedral as Bible -- a picture essay -- 22. Biblical drama -- 23. Poverty movements -- Dominic and his friars preachers -- 24. The Bible in the university -- 25. Wyclif and the Lollards -- Reform in Bohemia".
catalog tableOfContents "Part Three: Words of a new faith -- 1. Timeline: 65 B.C. to A.D. 400 -- 2. The world of Jesus -- Jesus and Roman Judea -- 3. The life and ministry of Jesus -- Jesus and the Hebrew Scriptures -- 4. Spreading the Good News -- The ministry of Philip -- 5. Apostle to the Gentile world -- Martyrdom of the apostles -- 6. Letter writing in the First Century -- The Letter of Paul to Philemon -- 7. Thessalonians and Galatians -- 8. Corinthians and Philippians -- Timothy and Titus -- 9. Romans, Colossians, Ephesians -- 10. Who wrote the "other" epistles? -- 11. Telling the story of Jesus -- The Gospel of Thomas -- 12. Language of the New Testament -- 13. The Gospel of Mark -- 14. The Gospel of Matthew -- 15. The Gospel of Luke and Acts -- The use of Mark's Gospel in Matthew and Luke -- 16. The Gospel and Letters of John -- Was there a signs source? -- 17. Present at the Apocalypse -- Apocalypse of Peter -- 18. Josephus -- Testimony on Jesus -- 19. Shaping the Mishnah -- The Talmud -- 20. Invention of the book -- A fourth-century codex -- 21. Apostolic fathers -- Collected works -- 22. Role of the BIble in early Christian worship -- Christian instruction -- 23. Christian popular literature -- 24. The early spread of Christianity -- 25. Early Christian art -- a picture essay -- 26. The Gnostic challenge -- A Gnostic find -- 27. Debating the New Testament canon -- 28. Revising the Septuagint -- The Targums -- 29. Origen and the Sixfold BIble -- 30. Early biblical interpretation -- 31. Establishing the Christian canon -- Canonical debate from the first century to the fourth".
catalog tableOfContents "Part Two: The written word -- 1. Timeline: 1010 to 65 B.C. -- 2. A mighty kingdom -- 3. Poetry in the Old Testament -- Poetry of love and sadness -- 4. David and the Psalms -- 5. The temple and worship -- Autumn festival -- 6. Words of wisdom -- Words of wisdom from Israel and Egypt -- 7. Language of the Old Testament -- 8. The divided kingdom -- 9. Who were the prophets? -- Voices of the twelve -- 10. Oracles of Isaiah -- 11. Baruch and Jeremiah -- The seal of Jeremiah's scribe -- 12. The writing craft -- The making of parchment -- 13. The Babylonian captivity -- 14. Ezekiel: The voice of exile -- 15. Shaping the Pentateuch -- Mystery of the doublets -- A tapestry of words -- 16. Ezra: the second lawgiver -- The decree of Cyrus -- 17. The chronicler -- 18. Tales that inspire -- 19. The making of the Septuagint -- Alexandria -- 20. The Samaritan Pentateuch -- 21. Defining Daniel -- 22. Choosing the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible -- 23. What was left out -- 24. Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Last days of Qumran -- Was John the Baptist an Essene? -- 25. Recovering the scrolls -- a picture essay".
catalog tableOfContents "The Bible through the ages introduction -- Part One: The oral tradition -- 1. Timeline: 4000 to 1010 B.C. -- 2. The world of the patriarchs -- Patriarchal clans in the Fertile Crescent -- Everyday life in Sumer -- 3. Abraham and his God -- 4. Storytelling and the oral tradition -- 5. Stories in the oral tradition -- A tale within a tale -- 6. The birth of writing -- The development of cuneiform -- 7. The Egyptian sojourn -- The Egyptian Book of the Dead -- 8. Papyrus: Egypt's gift to writers -- The making of papyrus -- 9. Moses in Egypt -- From Israel and Egypt: Songs of praise and of faith in a single God -- 10. Moses and the law -- The oral law -- 11. Champions of the Promised Land -- Excerpts from the Song of Deborah".
catalog title "Reader's Digest Bible through the ages".
catalog title "The Bible through the ages / Reader's digest.".
catalog type "History. fast".
catalog type "Introductions. fast".
catalog type "text".