''A compelling account'' James G. Clark
''The best survey yet written . . . of the world''s most influential book'' Ronald Hutton
''A stupendous intellectual achievement'' Andrew Pettegree
''Aching with beauty'' Alec Ryrie
The remarkable story of the most influential book in human history.
The Bible is the world''s best-known text. Yet, it is a book that never was - its original form does not exist and probably never did. What we have is the inheritance of generation after generation of Christians who have sought to hear God speak. Available in over three thousand languages and taking innumerable forms, each version is a revelation, evolving as a reflection of its own culture and moment.
Bruce Gordon traces the Bible''s astounding journey from its emergence as a codex in the second century, to the Reformation, to the spectacular growth of Christianity in the Global South today. For centuries a source of in
