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A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths

John Barton

This book tells the story of the Bible, explaining how it came to be constructed and how it has been understood, from its remote beginnings down to the present. John Barton describes how the narratives, laws, proverbs, prophecies, poems and letters which comprise the Bible were written and about their authors and what they might have meant, as well as how these extraordinarily disparate writings relate to each other

ReligionReligion · medium confidenceReligion81 signalsLlm Classifier: Religion -> ReligionAward Category: Duff Cooper Prize: History, Biography & Political Science -> BiographyAward Category: Biography -> BiographyAmerican Politics

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Duff Cooper Prize: History, Biography & Political Science2019WinnerSecondary source
Wolfson History PrizeMajor2022ShortlistOfficial source
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  3. 03 Suggested argument

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