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The Bible
The Biography
‘There could not be a better guide [to the Bible] than Karen Armstrong… Her scholarship is immense. She has researched and written with wisdom and insight on all the major faiths and on the notion of God itself to huge acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Her style is never to knock down, caricature or expose, but to immerse herself in her subject and to understand what makes religions, and the religiously inclined, tick. Her short biography provides a learned but accessible history of the Bible’s origins and genesis. Armstrong goes behind the authorised versions preached by the churches to recreate the order – and the political and social circumstances – in which the books of the Old and New testaments were first written down, amended, and then endlessly reinterpreted and recast… Armstrong’s great achievement, however, is that, as well as leaving you with a clearer, more historically accurate picture as to what precisely the Bible is (and isn’t), she also makes you want to go back and read it again with fresh eyes.’ Peter Stanford, Independent
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Copyright
Copyright © Karen Armstrong 2007
The moral right of Karen Armstrong to be identified as the author of this workhas been asserted in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in aretrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both thecopyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders. The publishers will bepleased to make good any omissions or rectify any mistakes brought to theirattention at the earliest opportunity.
Atlantic BooksAn imprint of Grove Atlantic LtdOrmond House26–27 Boswell StreetLondon WC1N 3JZ
www.groveatlantic.co.uk
ISBN: 978-1-848-87254-7
First eBook Edition: August 2010
In Memory of Eileen Hastings Armstrong (1921–2006)
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