TESTAMENT :: THE BIBLE AND HISTORY :: 1988 HB w/ DJ

• Hardback book with Dust Jacket by John Romer
• Over 365 pages
• First American Edition
• Copyright © 1988 by John Romer

" The Bible has had more influence upon Western civilization than any other book.
So splendid are its phrases that many have taken them to be the unmediated word of God.
Since its texts were gathered together the book has been venerated and enshrined, execrated and burned.
But whether we are believers or not the Bible still remains our heritage, the lynchpin of modern civilization.
It has provided the West with a sense of the sacred and our sense of historical destiny.

Testament describes the making of the Bible, the creation of both the Old and New Testaments and charts the book's survival through the long centuries of its life.
Testament is a unique book: no other single volume tells the story of the Bible's extraordinary journey from the most ancient East to the heart of the modern West.

John Romer uses his considerable experience of the worlds of art history and archaeology to advantage as he unravels the story of the making and the use and misuse of the world's most beautiful and influential book.
With a sure touch he sets the historical scene and brings to vivid life the Bible's creators.

From the silty plains of Mesopotamia on whose floods many Noahs set sail, to the quiet Valley of the Nile where sombre temples were filled with a sense of the holy, Romer traces the seeds of Judaism and Christianity.
He describes in lively detail how the Bible was written and by whose hands.
The scope of Testament is enormous and fascinating, stretching as it does from the ancient Israelites to the archaeologists who came in search of them.
Its characters include the Rabbis who fought and died for their sacred books; Jesus of Nazareth, whose preachings inspired St. Paul and whose life and death became the corner-stone of the Church; Constantine, who formalized the faith and made the Holy Land; Irenaeus, who classified the holy scriptures; fiery Jerome, who translated them, and later, Martin Luther and King James.
There are just a few of the people who held the thread of the Bible's story in their hands.
Testament tells all their stories and ours. "

Contents includes:

" List of colour plates

List of illustrations and maps

Foreword

Introduction: Visiting Abraham

Bible Beginning

Abraham in his Time

Archaeology as Myth

Sarah and the Mandrakes

Genesis

The Tower of Babel and the Sphinx

Foreigners in Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt in the Bible

The Exodus

Introduction: Digging for God

Israelites and the Archaeologists

The First Israelites

The Land of Canaan

Sackers of Cities

David, Goliath and Samson

Israel's Beginnings

A Mighty Fortress is our God

The Kingdoms

Remembering Zion

Exile

Return

Many Jehovahs

Glittering Cities

Herod and Hellenism

Judah under Rome

The Veil Rent

Dead Sea Scrolls

Making the Book

Scribes and Printers

Introduction: The Marketplace

Gospel Truth ? Jesus and Archaeology

Paul's Church: The New Testament Audience

The Gospels: The Art of Sacred Biography

Gospel Beginnings: The Archaeological Evidence

Gospel Beginnings: Antioch and the Evangelists

'Crooked harps and customs'

Making the Choice: Irenaeus of Lyon

Introduction: Pagan to Christian

The Council at Nicea: Striking a Balance

Constantinople: A Christian Rome

Making the Holy Land

The Imperial Bible

Pagans and Heretics

Jerome and the Roman Bible

Translations and Transitions

Introduction: Into the Dark

Northumbria and Ireland

Constantinople: The Divine Wisdom

In the Image of the Bible: The Emperor of Byzantium

Charlemagne and Alcuin

In the Image of the Bible: The Kingdoms of the West

Tuesday 29 May 1453

Introduction: 'Style is the Man'

Martin Luther

'even that I burned': The English Bible

A New Heaven and a New Earth

Explorations and Autopsies

Exodus II

A Book of Revelations

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Illustration Acknowledgments

Index of Bible References

General Index "

This book is in very nice condition with some normal edgewear to the dust jacket.
Also, the dust jacket is taped on the inside flaps to the inside covers of the book.
There are a few light smudges on the side edges of the pages, mostly visible from the side view and also on the first blank page.
No torn or ripped pages.

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