The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

Timothy Beal takes us back to early Christianity to ask how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and forward to see how the multibillion-dollar business that has brought us Biblezines and Manga Bibles is selling down the Bible's sacred capital.
Among his surprising insights:
- Ear [...]
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Timothy Beal takes us back to early Christianity to ask how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and forward to see how the multibillion-dollar business that has brought us Biblezines and Manga Bibles is selling down the Bible's sacred capital.
Among his surprising insights:
- Early Christianity thrived for centuries without any Bible--there was no official canon of scriptures, much less a book big enough to hold them all.
- There is no "original" Bible behind the thousands of different Bibles on the market today. The farther we go back in the Bible's history, the more versions we find.
- The idea of the Bible as the literal Word of God is only about a century old.Beal offers a chance to rediscover a Bible, and a faith, that is truer to its own history--not a book of answers but a library of questions.