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>18 I have mine as The Bible: A Biography; but I cannot locate the copy right now. I generally use what is on the actual title page (not the cover) of the book, as if I were following AACR rules (believe me, I am happy not to have to do that here!), but I like accuracy. I use the ISBN whenever ... I believe the Armstrong book may actually be called The Bible: A Biography.
There is also
- Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages
- How We Got the Bible
- The Book: A History of the Bible (touchstone is incorrect); by Christopher De Hamel
- ... ... to be interpreted with "charity" or "love" - can't remember whether I saw that in Dei Verbum or in Karen Armstrong's The Bible - a biography or both. I've finished The Bible: A Biography which I found *very* interesting and I also finished Unlikely Disciple which made for a fascinating contrast. I'm considering returning to The Three Musketeers but am feeling a bit saturated with reading for the moment. I also bought Death in the Haymarket ... I am finishing up Armstrong's The Bible: A Biography and then I want to finish reading The Smoke by Tony Broadbent. Both seem to be well-researched. Trying desperately to get through and retain some meaning from The Bible: A Biography and finish A song for Arbonne and The Unlikely Disciple but after that I want to read Why I Write and Clubbed to Death. Apologies in advance to Oakes, as I know she is not one of his favourite authors, but Karen Armstrong's The Bible: The Biography may be an illuminating exercise in investigating the accepted claims of all sides The Bible The Biography by Karen Armstrong - excellent! Has to have been The Bible - The Biography.
Not up to Karen Armstrong's usual standard. Too much opinion given as fact. I got the feeling that she ignored the breadth of modern Biblical scholarship. ... by Laurence Bergreen (completed 17 Jan 2009)
2. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman * (completed 8 Feb 2009)
3. The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong *
4. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale * (completed 29 Mar 2009)
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1. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ... I am currently in the middle of The September Society but will also start one of the following during the next week:
The Bible: A Biography
Deception's Daughter
Seven Sacred Pauses
Three more days of vacation before I have to return to the office! (Yay!! The masses cheered) My planned books for this week are:
The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Ticket that Exploded by William S Burroughs ... club}
45) Monday mourning by Kathy Reichs 383 pp.
46) In the shadow of the glacier by Vicki Delany 302pp
47) The Bible : a Biography by Karen Armstrong 242 pp
48) The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 167 pp {book club} The Bible - The Biography
I was disappointed. Although I am used to disagreeing with Karen Armstrong on matters of opinion, I have always before found that what she presents as her factual information is dependable. To present a history of how the Bible was written without any mention that ... ... River by Peter Hessler - nonfiction; interesting read at a time when I was watching the Beijing Olympics
293. The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong - nonfiction; despite being raised going to church, I learned a lot I did not know about the Bible in reading this book
294. ... ... from my local library:
The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
Illiterate America by Jonathan Kozol
The Bible: Books that Changed the World by Karen Armstrong
E = mc2 = David Bodanis
Prince of Darkness and Dragon's Lair by Sharon Kay Penman
Grea ... VII. Other nonfiction
Microcosm: portrait of a Central European city
The federalist
The Bible: a biography
The end of biblical studies
On deep history and the brain
Mathematics for the general reader
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