{"product_id":"the-making-of-the-bible-from-the-first-fragments-to-sacred-scripture","title":"The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Making of the Bible is invaluable for anyone interested in Scripture and in the intertwined histories of Judaism and Christianity. John Barton  author of A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths  The authoritative new account of the Bibles origins  illuminating the 1 600-year tradition that shaped the Christian and Jewish holy books as millions know them today.  The Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process  one that begins in the tenth century BCE. In this revelatory account  a world-renowned scholar of Hebrew scripture joins a foremost authority on the New Testament to write a new biography of the Book of Books  reconstructing Jewish and Christian scriptural histories  as well as the underappreciated contest between them  from which the Bible arose.  Recent scholarship has overturned popular assumptions about Israels past  suggesting  for instance  that the five books of the Torah were written not by Moses but during the reign of Josiah centuries later. The sources of the Gospels are also under scrutiny. Konrad Schmid and Jens Schrter reveal the long  transformative journeys of these and other texts en route to inclusion in the holy books. The New Testament  the authors show  did not develop in the wake of an Old Testament set in stone. Rather the two evolved in parallel  in conversation with each other  ensuring a continuing mutual influence of Jewish and Christian traditions. Indeed  Schmid and Schrter argue that Judaism might not have survived had it not been reshaped in competition with early Christianity.  A remarkable synthesis of the latest Old and New Testament scholarship  The Making of the Bible is the most comprehensive history yet told of the worlds best-known literature  revealing its buried lessons and secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44956299296821,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674248384","price":35.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674248380.jpg?v=1770318526","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-making-of-the-bible-from-the-first-fragments-to-sacred-scripture","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}