{"product_id":"the-book-a-history-of-the-bible-9780714845241","title":"The Book. a History of the Bible","description":"\u003cp\u003eA compelling, highly readable, scrupulously factual and unbiased history of the Bible as a book, with over 200 rich, fascinating and varied illustrations of Bibles from all times and places. The Bible is the most widely circulated book ever written. \u003ci\u003eThe Book: A History of the Bible\u003c\/i\u003e tells for the first time the momentous story of the Bible as a book, tracing its publication in endless forms and numerous languages from its origins to the present day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe clear and highly readable narrative includes an account of the Old and New Testaments in their original languages of Hebrew and Greek, the Latin Vulgate translation of Saint Jerome, the magnificent manuscript Bibles of the Middle Ages, Guttenberg and the first printed Bible, and the translations of Wycliffe, Luther and the Protestant reformers. Continuing with missionary Bibles, the emergence of the modern Bible publishing industry and the mass of twentieth-century translations and versions, it concludes with the modern discovery of papyrus fragments and Dead Sea Scrolls which have cast important new light on the origins of the Bible. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher de Hamel writes as a historian. Without being evangelical or polemical, he bases his text scrupulously on actual surviving Bibles and the historical circumstances in which they were made. Scholarly and authoritative, \u003ci\u003eThe Book\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new, clear-sighted, thought-provoking and utterly gripping account of the origins and history of the world's most influential book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher de Hamel is an outstanding authority on illustrated manuscripts and books. For many years, he was head of the Western Manuscripts department at Sotheby's in London. He is Fellow Librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His \u003ci\u003eHistory of Illuminated Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Phaidon, has become a standard work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Phaidon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523710226706,"sku":"9780714845241","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b1b8c46-4c74-4191-9669-4afc896b3a85.jpg?v=1731163795","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-book-a-history-of-the-bible-9780714845241","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}