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Understanding the Bible: A Reader's Introduction - Softcover

Stephen L. Harris

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Stephen Harris' text is the best-selling nonsectarian guide designed for students undertaking their first systematic study of the bible, and it is the only single-volume text that provides both a comprehensive historical-cultural background for the entire biblical era and a rigorous analysis of each individual work of the Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New Testament. The purpose of the text is to acquaint readers with the content and major themes of each biblical book and to familiarize them with important contemporary scholarship.

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Revised and updated edition (2nd, 1985) of a popular nonsectarian guide to reading and understanding the Bible. In addition to important archaeological data and historical background, Harris provides information about the date, authorship, and theological content of each book of the Old and New Testaments. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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