A History of the BibleA uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation how it came to be written, how its contents were selected and how it really relates to the religions that endorse it This book tells the story of the Bible, how it came to be constructed and how it has been understood, from its remote beginnings down to the present. It describes how the disparate writings which comprise the Bible were written and when, as well as what we know and what we cannot know