num_pages: 336
description: STUNNING REFRESHING AND ORIGINAL JULIA BAIRD Koby Abberton emerges like a shark on to the sand at Maroubra Beach. Tattooed from shoulder to shoulder his body bares letters like teeth: My brothers keeper. In this surprising and revelatory history of the Bible in Australia Meredith Lake gets under the skin of a text thats been read wrestled with preached and tattooed and believed to be everything from a resented imposition to the very Word of God.The Bible in Australia explores how in the hands of Bible-bashers immigrants suffragists evangelists unionists writers artists and Indigenous Australians the Bible has played a contested but defining role in this country. Vivid story-telling and impossible to put down. Meredith Lake brings the Bibles chameleon-like presence in Australias past alive. At last this long-neglected yet profoundly important aspect of Australian history has found its true historian. A remarkable achievement.  Mark McKenna From the opening words about Bra Boy tattoos this book had me gripped. It breathes colour poetry and life into our understanding of the Bible in Australia. A vital much-needed addition to our understanding of faith in our country.  Julia Baird
language: English
title: The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History
publisher: NewSouth