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Title: Bible for Grown-Ups, The: A New Look at the Good Book
Author: LOVEDAY SIMON
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/10/2016
Imprint: ICON
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
The Bible for Grown-Ups neither requires, nor rejects, belief. It sets out to help intelligent adults make sense of the Bible – a book that is too large to swallow whole, yet too important in our history and culture to spit out. Why do the creation stories in Genesis contradict each other? Did the Exodus really happen? Was King David a historical figure? Why is Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus so different from Luke’s? Why was St Paul so rude about St Peter?..Every Biblical author wrote for their own time, and their own audience. In short, nothing in the Bible is quite what it seems. Literary critic Simon Loveday’s book – a labour of love that has taken over a decade to write – is a thrilling read, for Christians and anyone else, which will overturn everything you thought you knew about the Good Book.
ISBN: 9781785781315
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 320