Don't Know Much aboutÂ® the Bible Everything You Need to Know about the Good Book but Never Learned

Name: Don't Know Much aboutÂ® the Bible Everything You Need to Know about the Good Book but Never Learned
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ISBN: 9780380728398

ISBN-10: 0380728397

ISBN-13: 9780380728398

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Authors: Kenneth C. Davis, Winston

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With wit, wisdom, and an extraordinary talent for turning dry, difficult reading into colorful and realistic accounts, the creator of the bestselling Don't Know Much About, series now brings the world of the Old and New testaments to life as no one else can in the bestseller Don't Know Much About The Bible. Relying on new research and improved translations, Davis uncovers some amazing questions and contradictions about what the Bible really says. Jericho's walls may have tumbled down because the city lies on a fault line. Moses never parted the Red Sea. There was a Jesus, but he wasn't born on Christmas and he probably wasn't an only child. Davis brings readers up-to-date on findings…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/27/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Kenneth C. Davis is an American popular historian, best known for his Don't Know Much About... series. Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Davis attended Concordia College, Bronxville in New York, and Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York City. Davis's second book, Don't Know Much About History, spent 35 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and sold nearly 1.5 million copies. This unexpected success launched the Don't Know Much About... series.



Introduction



Whose Bible Is It Anyway?



The Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament


Two Creations ... No Apple (Genesis)


Let My People Go (Exodus)


Forty Years on the Road (Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)


Over the River (Joshua)


Why, Why, Why, Delilah? (Judges, Ruth)


Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crown ... Part 1 (1 and 2 Samuel)


Uneasy Lies the Head ... Part 2 (1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Lamentations)


Eight Men Out (The Pre-Exile Prophets)


Amos


Hosea


Isaiah


Micah


Nahum


Zephaniah


Habakkuk


Jeremiah


You Can Go Home Again (Ezra, Nehemiah)


From Dry Bones to Fish Bellies (The Post-Exile Prophets)


Ezekiel


Haggai


Zechariah


Malachi


Obadiah


Joel


Jonah


A Godless Book (Esther)


The Devil Made Me Do It (Job)


Out of the Mouths of Babes (Psalms)


Happy Are Those Who Find Wisdom (Proverbs)


Nothing New Under the Sun (Ecclesiastes)


The Love Machine, Another Godless Book (Song of Solomon)


Hebrew 1-Lions 0 (Daniel)


Between the Books (The Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical Books)



The New Testament


The World According to Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)


Jesus Is Coming--Look Busy (Acts of the Apostles)


You Have Mail! (The Epistles of Paul)


The "Pastoral Letters" (1 and 2 Timothy, Titus)


More Mail (The General Epistles)


Apocalypse Now? (Revelation)


Afterword: Whose God Is It Anyway?



The Ten Commandments



The Twenty-third Psalm



The Lord's Prayer



The Prologue to John's Gospel


Glossary


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index