The Bible. Historical and Literary Introduction to the Holy Scriptures

Bart Ehrman, professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Doctor of Theology, author of more than twenty scholarly and popular science books on the Bible, the life of Jesus, and the history of early... Christianity, devoted his current book to the study of Jewish and Christian writings that make up the Bible, which tell about Ancient Israel and early Christianity. The author examines the scriptures from historical and literary perspectives: he tries to explain why it is difficult to perceive, talks about the early Israelite prophets and the prophets of the Babylonian captivity, about the poets and storytellers of Ancient Israel and the Letters of Paul... Thus, he leads to an understanding that the Bible plays a key role in the history of European civilization...