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In this revelatory exploration of one of our most revered icons,

a critically acclaimed author and professor takes us back to early

Christianity to ask how a box of handwritten scrolls became the

Bible, and forward to see how the multibillion-dollar business that

has brought us Biblezines and Manga Bibles is selling down the

Bible's sacred capital. Showing us how a single official text was

created from the proliferation of different *s, Beal traces

its path as it became embraced as the word of God and Book of

books. Among his surprising insights:

* Christianity thrived for centuries without any Bible--there was

no official canon of *ures, much less a book big enough to

hold them all. Congregations used various collections of scrolls

and codices.

* There is no "original" Bible, no single source text behind the

thousands of different Bibles on the market today. The farther we

go back in the Bible's history, the more versions we find.

* The idea of the Bible as the literal Word of God is relatively

new--only about a century old.

Beal's is an inspiring new take on the Bible. In calling for a

fresh understanding of the ways *ures were used in the past,

he offers the chance to rediscover a Bible, and a faith, that is

truer to its own history--not a book of answers but a library of

questions.

I. THE END OF THE WORD AS WE KNOW IT

A  PERSONAL 

INTRODUCTION     

Magic 8 Ball Bible 

The Rise of a Cultural Icon 

The Way of Salvation 

So Long, Judas 

The Course of This Book 

My Utmost, Revisited 

2. THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD 

Sodom and Gomorrah Equals Love 

Biblical Consumerism 

Expectations of Biblical Proportions 

By Whose Authority? 

3. BIBLICAL VALUES

Felt Needs 

Values Added 

Finding Your Niche 

Necessary Supplements 

TIMOTHY BEAL is Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case

Western Reserve University. He has published eleven books,

including Biblical Literacy: The Essential Bible Stories Everyone

Needs to Know and Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the

Strange, and the Substance of Faith, a New York Times Book Review

Editors' Choice and one of Publishers Weekly's ten best religion

books of 2005. He has published essays in the New York Times, the

Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He

resides in Shaker Heights, OH.

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