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  • Whose Bible Is It?

  • A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages
  • By: Jaroslav Pelikan
  • Narrated by: Paul Hecht
  • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (66 ratings)

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Whose Bible Is It?

By: Jaroslav Pelikan
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Winner of the John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences, Jaroslav Pelikan is Professor Emeritus of history at Yale University and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This examination of the history of the Bible reflects half a century of study and research by the author. In Whose Bible Is It?, Pelikan traces the transformation of the Bible from its earliest oral traditions to its modern forms.

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One of the best books on the history of the scriptures. Everybody needs to have knowledge of the canon of the Bible.

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Engaging, assured, breezy tour of the history of the Bible

Having read Pelikan's Jesus through the Centuries, this was in many ways analogous, but focusing on the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible / Tanakh and the New Testament from a religious as well as historical lens. While the content is covered, the focus is more on the text's reception, distribution, and influence through history, with an eye to the relationship between the Jewish and Christian receptions in particular.

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Amazing and Important Insights into History of Eastern and Western cultural development

Dr. Pelikan has done painstakingly rigorous work to refine this history of Jewish, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant history of of the Bible. His work covers important history of the Eastern Orthodox Church (estimated current membership around 250-300 million), that is less well known in Western Europe and its former colonies. I highly recommend this book to everyone as a must-read/listen. It is erudite, practical, as it relates to our understanding of our world and our place in it, engaging and well-narrated.

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Too Verbose Not Enough "Big Picture" Bible History

If you're looking for a concise history of how the bible as we know it came together, you'll be disappointed. In my opinion, the author is an intellectual who uses entirely too many words. After 2 hours, I finally gave up listening. Maybe I'm inpatient, but if an author can't grab my attention from the first or second chapter, I'm not sure I want to read his book. It's definitely not what I would classify as a "good book." I was really hoping to find a decent audio version about bible history, but I guess I'll have to resort to reading, perhaps the book, "The Story of the Bible" by Larry Stone.

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