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Don't Know Much About the Bible
Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned
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eBook - ePub
Don't Know Much About the Bible
Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned
About this book
“Reading Davis is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had!” —People magazine
A completely revised and updated version of the classic book Don’t Know Much About® The Bible
Nine out of ten Americans own a Bible, but how much do they know about the one book that has influenced human history more than any other? Don't Know Much About the Bible by New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis is designed to illuminate everything we need to know about the Good Book but never learned.
With wit, authority, and intelligence, Davis brings the world of the Old and New Testaments to vivid life, setting the panorama of the Scriptures against the historical events that shaped them; clearing up misconceptions and mistranslations; summarizing Bible stories, parables, and miracles; and adding fresh new insights to the world's most owned, least understood book.
Relying on up-to-date research and improved translations, Davis set out to uncover what the Bible says—and doesn't say, with shocking discoveries, such as:
- There are two different Creation stories told in Genesis, but no apple in the Garden of Eden story.
- Noah invented wine and cursed the son who had seen him drunk and naked.
- There was no "coat of many colors" in the story of Joseph and his jealous brothers, but rather a long-sleeved robe.
- Moses didn't write the Torah and he didn't part the Red Sea in his escape from Pharaoh.
- The Sixth Commandment does not condemn all killing.
- Jericho's walls may have tumbled down because the city lies on a fault line.
- King David probably didn't kill Goliath and didn't write the Psalms.
- And more!
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- PART ONE: Whose Bible is it Anyway?
- PART TWO: The Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament
- Two Creations... NoApple (Genesis)
- Let My People Go (Exodus)
- Forty Years on the Road (Leviticus,Numbers,Deuteronomy)
- Over the River (Joshua)
- Why, Why, Why, Delilah?(Judges,Ruth)
- Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown...Part 1 (1&2Samuel)
- Uneasy Lies the Head...Part 2 (1&2Kings,1&2Chronicles,Lamentations)
- Eight Men Out(The Pre-Exile Prophets)
- Amos
- Hosea
- Isaiah
- Michah
- Nahum
- Zephaniah
- Habakuk
- Jermiah
- You Can Go Home Again (Ezra,Nehemiah)
- From Dry Bones to Fish Bellies (ThePost-ExileProphets)
- Ezekiel
- Haggai
- Zechariah
- Malachi
- Obadiah
- Joel
- Jonah
- A Godless Book (Esther)
- The Devil Made me Do it (Job)
- Out of the Mouths of Babes (Psalms)
- Happy are those who Find Wisdom (Proverbs)
- Nothing New Under the Sun (Ecclesiastes)
- The Love Machine, Another Godless Book (Song of Solomon)
- Hebrew 1-Lions 0 (Daniel)
- Between the Books (The Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical Books)
- PART THREE: The New Testament
- The World According to Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)
- Jesus is Coming Look Busy (Acts of the Apostles)
- You Have Mail! (The Epistles of Paul)
- The 'Pastoral Letters' (1 & 2 Timothy, Titus)
- More Mail (The General Epistles)
- Apocalypse Now? (Revelation)
- Afterword: Whose God is it Anyway?
- Appendix 1: The Ten Commandments
- Appendix 2: The Twenty-third Psalm
- Appendix 3: The Lord's Prayer
- Appendix 4: The Prologue to John's Gospel
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Searchable Terms
- About the Author
- Books by Kenneth C. Davis
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher