Learn the Story Behind the Greatest Story
The Story of the Bible details the ancient wisdom
and lasting treasures in 24 fascinating lectures
Since the invention of the printing
press, the world’s consistently best-selling book has been the Bible. Since
1815, it has been printed an estimated
five billion times. By the end of 2005, it
had been translated into 2,043 languages.
In the Western world, the Bible is easy to
find: In most hotel rooms, it is handier
than the Yellow Pages.
And yet, what do many of us know
about this ancient and influential text?
Compiled over centuries, the Bible is considered to be both a divinely inspired message and the work of human authors.
Throughout its history, it has grown from
a collection of stories and teachings shared
through oral tradition to a founding text
for three of the world’s great religions. It
has been copied and recopied into countless manuscripts, pronounced from the
pulpit, studied in universities and synagogues, and read in private. Translated
and distributed all over the world, it bears
the mark of the many cultures that have
debated its meaning and prized its wisdom.
In The Story of the Bible, renowned
scholar Luke Timothy Johnson illuminates for you how this great book came
into being. Tracing the development of
biblical texts across millennia, Professor
Johnson reaches from ancient history
through antiquity and the Middle Ages
up to the present. You’ll learn about the
many forms the Bible has taken and the
ways history, scholarship, and technology
have helped shape this great tradition. You
learn the Bible’s powerful influence on
human history and culture.
The Manuscripts and Mysteries
Our journey takes us inside medieval
monasteries where scribal monks copied
scripture into beautifully illuminated
manuscripts. We’ll venture into the caves
of Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls lay
hidden for hundreds of years and examine
how the destruction of the Temple in
Jerusalem forever changed the way the
Jews read their sacred texts.
Throughout this enthralling story,
you’ll develop a deep appreciation for the
tremendous power of this astonishing
book—one that has endured through centuries and touched the lives of countless
millions.
About Your Professor
Dr. Luke Timothy Johnson is the
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New
Testament and Christian Origins at
Emory University’s Candler School of
Theology. He is the author of more than
20 books, including The Real Jesus: The
Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and
the Truth of the Traditional Gospels, and
The Writings of the New Testament: An
Interpretation, which is used widely as a
textbook.
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Lecture Titles
1. Telling the Story of a Book
2. Making TaNaK
3. Forms of Jewish Scripture
4. Birth of the Christian Bible
5. Formation of Jewish and Christian
Canons
6. Writing and Copying Manuscripts
7. Imperial Sponsorship and the Bible
8. Texts and Translations—The Ancient
East
9. Old Latin and the Vulgate
10. Other Ancient Versions
11. Monasteries and Manuscripts
12. Interpretation within Judaism
13. Interpretation in Medieval
Christianity
14. The Renaissance, Printing, and the
Bible
15. The Protestant Reformation and the
Bible
16. Translating the Bible into Modern
Languages
17. The First Efforts at Englishing the
Bible
18. The King James Version
19. The Romance of Manuscripts
20. Searching for the Critical Text
21. The Historical-Critical Approach
22. The Bible in Contemporary Judaism
23. Contemporary Christians and Their
Bibles
24. The Bible’s Story Continues
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