Story of the Bible

Led by a renowned scholar, trace the development of biblical texts across millennia. You'll get invaluable insight into the remarkable and complicated process by which the Bible came into being.

Syllabus

01: Telling the Story of a Book
02: Making TaNaK
03: Forms of Jewish Scripture
04: Birth of the Christian Bible
05: Formation of Jewish and Christian Canons
06: Writing and Copying Manuscripts
07: Imperial Sponsorship and the Bible
08: Texts and Translations-The Ancient East
09: Old Latin and the Vulgate
10: Other Ancient Versions
11: Monasteries and Manuscripts
12: Interpretation within Judaism
13: Interpretation in Medieval Christianity
14: The Renaissance, Printing, and the Bible
15: The Protestant Reformation and the Bible
16: Translating the Bible into Modern Languages
17: The First Efforts at Englishing the Bible
18: The King James Version
19: The Romance of Manuscripts
20: Searching for the Critical Text
21: The Historical-Critical Approach
22: The Bible in Contemporary Judaism
23: Contemporary Christians and Their Bibles
24: The Bible's Story Continues
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Taught by

Luke Timothy Johnson

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