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The rise and fall of the Bible the unexpected history of an accidental book

An acclaimed author takes readers back to early Christianity to ask how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and forward to see how the multibillion-dollar business that has created Biblezines and Manga Bibles is selling down the Bible's sacred capital.

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Main Author: Beal, Timothy K. (Timothy Kandler), 1963-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Subjects:
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Summary:An acclaimed author takes readers back to early Christianity to ask how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and forward to see how the multibillion-dollar business that has created Biblezines and Manga Bibles is selling down the Bible's sacred capital.
Physical Description:ix, 244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-225) and index.
ISBN:9780151013586 (hbk.)
0151013586 (hbk.)
Author Notes:TIMOTHY BEAL is Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University. He has published eleven books, including Biblical Literacy: The Essential Bible Stories Everyone Needs to Know and Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and one of Publishers Weekly 's ten best religion books of 2005. He has published essays in the New York Times , the Washington Post , and the Chronicle of Higher Education .

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