How We Got the Bible provides well-researched, accessible answers to many questions like these. Learn about the first materials used to write down the words of Scripture. Uncover the facts of some of history's most fascinating archaeological discoveries, including those of the Sinaitic Manuscript, the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Travel through history, from Jerome to Tyndale and beyond, as Neil R. Lightfoot discusses the origin, transmission, and translation of the Bible.
Illustrations and review questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal for either individual or group study. Concise and engaging, How We Got the Bible is a useful resource for anyone who wants to know the story behind the most widely read book of all time.
Neil R. Lightfoot (Ph.D., Duke University) serves as Frank Pack Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. He is the author of several books, including Everyone's Guide to Hebrews.
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Reviewed by Roy J Kelsey (Ravenna, OH), August 27, 2009
This book by Neil Lightfoot if filled with information regarding a subject this few know anything about. I asked one person how we got our Bible, and she replied, "I got mine in a Bookstore." I am sure this sums up what most believers know about about how we got our Bible. Neil Lightfoot has done a truly remarkable job in researching and recording a vast amount of information that all believers need to know.
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Reviewed by Jane White (Eastford, CT), August 05, 2008
I am in the process of reading the book and finding it fabulous. It is all and more I hoped it would be.
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Reviewed by Chuck Owen (Laredo, TX), March 14, 2008
This is the 3rd edition. I now have all three. It is a good, easy read, which makes it ideal for those of us with un-technical minds. I have such books more detailed and more technical. I prefer this one for the read.
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Reviewed by Robert Dillard, PhD in Hebrew ; PhD in Greek (Washington State), December 22, 2003
How We Got The Bible by Neil Lightfoot is a good, concise history of ancient manscripts and English Bible versions. Sound scholarship underlies Lightfoot's book, yet it is accessible by both students and scholars. Highly recommended to those who want to study this intriguing issue without the technical jargon found in the larger seminary oriented works.
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