TY  - BOOK
AU  - 	Karen Armstrong.
TI  - The Bible : a biography
T2  - 	Books that changed the world 
SN  - 9780871139696
U1  - 220.09 K145 B 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  -  Atlantic Monthly Press 
KW  - Bible
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Christian literature
N1  - 	
Religious historian Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, life, and afterlife of history's most powerful book. Armstrong analyzes the social and political situation in which oral history turned into written scripture, how this all-pervasive scripture was collected into one work, and how it became accepted as Christianity's sacred text. She explores how "as the pragmatic scientific ethos of modernity took hold, scripture was read for the information that it imparted" and how, in the nineteenth century, historical criticism of the Bible caused greater fear than Darwinism.--From publisher description
ER  -