Title: The origins of the Bible
First published: 1994
Description: This study shows how and why the Christian Bible was fashioned during two epochs of crisis and reform: the first during the fifth to second centuries B.C.E. when the Hebrew scriptures were assembled; the second during the first and second centuries C.E. when these same scriptures were defended, supplemented, and reborn as the Bible of the church.
Subjects: Bible, History of contemporary events, Canon, History of Biblical events, Canonical criticism, Bible, canon, Church history, Religion, History