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The Bible: A History: With Stephen Mangan, Paul Jesson, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Charles Horton. It is a book that originated thousands of years ago in the Middle East. The subject of intensive scholarship and interpretation.
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- 2010-01-24
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The Bible: A History. Season 1. It is a book that originated thousands of years ago in the Middle East. The subject of intensive scholarship, the New and Old Testaments contain rich narratives of Jesus, Moses, Noah and others that have shaped politics, culture, and human experience through the ages.
- Old Testament
- Hezekiah
- Septuagint
- New Testament
- The Gospels
- Book of Revelation
- Biblical Canon
- Gnostic Gospels
- King James Bible
- Sources
The Old Testament is the first section of the Bible, covering the creation of Earth through Noah and the flood, Moses and more, finishing with the Jews being expelled to Babylon. The Bible’s Old Testament is very similar to the Hebrew Bible, which has origins in the ancient religion of Judaism. The exact beginnings of the Jewish religion are unknow...
It was during the reign of Hezekiah of Judah in the 8th century B.C. that historians believe what would become the Old Testament began to take form, the result of royal scribes recording royal history and heroic legends. During the reign of Josiah in the 6th century B.C., the books of Deuteronomy and Judges were compiled and added. The final form o...
Following conquest by Alexander the Great, the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek in the 3rd century B.C. Known as the Septuagint, this Greek translation was initiated at the request of King Ptolemy of Egypt to be included in the library of Alexandria. The Septuagint was the version of the Bible used by early Christians in Rome. The Book of Dan...
The New Testament tells the story of the life of Jesus and the early days of Christianity, most notably Paul’s efforts to spread Jesus’ teaching. It collects 27 books, all originally written in Greek. The sections of the New Testament concerning Jesus are called the Gospels and were written about 40 years after the earliest written Christian materi...
The oral traditions within the church formed the substance of the Gospels, the earliest book of which is Mark, written around 70 A.D., 40 years after the death of Jesus. It is theorized there may have been an original document of sayings by Jesus known as the Q source, which was adapted into the narratives of the Gospels. All four Gospels were publ...
The Book of Revelation is the final book of the Bible, an example of apocalyptic literature that predicts a final celestial war through prophecy. Authorship is ascribed to John, but little else is known about the writer. According to the text, it was written around 95 A.D. on an island off the coast of Turkey. Some scholars believe it is less a pro...
Surviving documents from the 4th century show that different councils within the church released lists to guide how various Christian texts should be treated. The earliest known attempt to create a canon in the same respect as the New Testament was in 2nd century Rome by Marcion, a Turkish businessman and church leader. Marcion’s work focused on th...
Additional Biblical texts have been discovered, such as the Gospel of Mary, which was part of the larger Berlin Gnostic Codex found in Egypt in 1896. Fifty further unused Biblical texts were discovered in Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945, known as the Gnostic Gospels. Among the Gnostic Gospels were the Gospel of Thomas—which purports to be previously h...
The King James Bible is possibly the most widely-known editionof the Bible, though in England it is known as the “Authorized Version.” First printed in 1611, this edition of the Bible was commissioned in 1604 by King James I after feeling political pressure from Puritans and Calvinists demanding church reform and calling for a complete restructurin...
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible. John Rogerson, ed. The Book: A History of the Bible. Christopher De Hamel. New Testament History and Literature. Dale B. Martin. The Gnostic Gospels. Elaine Pagels. From Jesus To Christ. Frontline.
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Watch The Bible: A History on BBC Select. What history's bestselling book can tell us about ourselves. It’s the bestselling book in history that has shaped politics, culture and human experience through the ages.
The Bible: A History. Season 1. It's the bestselling book in history that has shaped politics, culture and human experience through the ages. Though it originated thousands of years ago in the Middle East it's still the basis of fierce debate and intensive scholarship to this day.
From him the three largest religions in the world arose. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. But rather than setting a foundation for peace among them, each religion claims Abraham as their own. Host Rageh Omaar wants to discover who Abraham was, and whether or not he his the key to peace among the masses.
31 gen 2010 · A book who's origins lie thousands of years ago in the middle east, still inspires billions today. 7 people, all from different walks of life offer their personal perceptive on the best selling book of all time and what it means to them. Documentary 2010. TV-G. Starring Stephen Mangan, Rageh Omaar.
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