TY - BOOK AU - Barton,John TI - A history of the Bible: the book and its faiths SN - 9780241003916 AV - BS 445 B293h 2019 U1 - 220.09 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books KW - Bible KW - History KW - Biblia KW - Historia N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This book tells the story of the Bible, explaining how it came to be constructed and how it has been understood, from its remote beginnings down to the present. John Barton describes how the narratives, laws, proverbs, prophecies, poems and letters which comprise the Bible were written and about their authors and what they might have meant, as well as how these extraordinarily disparate writings relate to each other ER -