How the Bible was built / Charles Merrill Smith, James W. Bennett.

• Old Testament: What's so special about the Book of Deuteronomy? -- What is the Pentateuch? -- The story of the Samaritans -- The prophets and their message -- Former prophets and latter prophets -- The Apocrypha (15 books): The significance of the Apocrypha and are they holy scripture? -- The apocrypha and Christianity -- The New Testament: The Q Document -- Mark, Matthew, Luke, John: Why were these four books perceived as holy scripture? -- What about the book of Acts? -- Letters of Paul -- The Catholic letters and the letters of John -- The canon: or, Who said "This is the official Bible?" -- The Council of Jamnia -- Origen's New Testament -- The New Testament of Eusebius -- Athanasius -- Jerome -- Gutenberg closes the canon -- Translating the Bible into English: Wyclif's Bible -- William Tyndale -- Opposition to English translations -- The Coverdale Bible -- The invention of Bible verses -- Nicknaming Bibles -- The King James translation -- Other English translations -- Hebrew poetry and common Greek -- Recent revisions and paraphrases -- Are all these revisions necessary? -- Biblical terms you need to know -- A Bible history timeline.

Titel

Bibeln -- historia

Bible -- History.

Klassifikation

BS445 (LCC)

220.09 (DDC)

Cb (kssb/8 (machine generated))