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What is the Bible? How did it get to us? Why are translations so different? And what influence has the Bible had on culture? From its very first pages, The Bible: An Introduction offers clear answers to the most puzzling questions that first time students and curious inquirers bring to the Bible. Without presuming prior knowledge of the Bible, or a particular attitude toward it, Sumney uses straightforward language to lead the reader on an exploration of the Bible's contents and the history of its writings, showing how critical methods help reader's understand what they find in the Bible> Neither polemical nor apologetic, The Bible: An Introduction presents the biblical writings as the efforts of men and women in the past to understand their lives and their world in light of the ways they understood the divine.

From its very first pages, this resource offers refreshingly clear answers to the most basic questions about the Bible. Sumney uses straightforward language to lead first-time students and the curious on an exploration of the Bible's contents and the history of its writings, showing how critical methods can help readers understand what they find in the Bible.

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