A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths2019

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