Penguin presents the audiobook release of A BRIEF HISTORY of the Bible by John Barton, read by Ralph Lister.

The Bible may be the central book in Western culture, yet extraordinarily there is absolutely no proper history of it. This excellent work, by among the world’s leading Biblical scholars, offers a complete account of the way the various areas of the Bible had become written; how some writings that have been thought to be holy became canonical and were contained in the Bible, and others were not; the actual about A Background of the Bible: The Reserve and Its Faiths relationship is definitely of the various elements of the Bible to each other; and exactly how, once it became a well balanced text, the Bible has been disseminated and interpreted around the world. It gives full weight to debate of the importance of the Tanakh (Aged Testament) in Judaism as with Christianity. It also demonstrates the degree to which, contrary to widespread belief, both Judaism and Christianity are not faiths drawn in the Bible text messages but from other sources and customs. It implies that if we are to regard the Bible as ‘authoritative’ it cannot be as believers possess so often done before.