The rise and fall of the Bible : the unexpected history of an accidental book
(2011)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
220.6/BEAL,T
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
DESCRIPTION
ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780151013586 (hbk.), 0151013586 (hbk.), 0151013586 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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