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Review

This is a relatively detailed Bible guidebook and it is crammed full of useful information.  However, it is an extremely approachable book and its ‘user-friendly’ layout makes it very easy to ‘dip-in-and-out-of’.  After a brief introductory section the remainder of the book (365 pages out of 399) works through each book in turn providing an outline of the key themes and lots of background information.  Here are some of the useful sections you’ll find in this guidebook:-

• QUICK GUIDE – your at-a-glance introduction to every book of the Bible.
• QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS – a lighter look at some of those difficult issues.
• TRICKY BITS – explanations of the things that make you go ‘hmmm’.
• THE ROUTE THROUGH – a ‘streetmap’ showing you how each Bible book is put together.
• LANDMARKS – the important events and themes of the Bible.
• POSTCARDS – introducing the cities and countries of the Bible.
• DETAILS, DETAILS – those fascinating facts that otherwise might go unnoticed.
• VIEWPOINTS – a guide to opposing interpretations.
• BRIEF LIVES – a quick summary of the lives of major Bible characters.

The backcover says, “The Bible Book is a new kind of guide to the Bible.  Informative, thought-provoking and very, very readable, this is a book that will help you explore the most famous book in the world.  Informal, but informed, simple but never simplistic, The Bible Book tackles the Bible with honesty, humour and inventiveness.  This book won’t baffle you with jargon, but it won’t insult your intelligence either.”

Contents

Part One: Mapping Out the Territory
   - Introduction
   - How this book is organised
   - Six myths about the Bible
   - Exploring the Bible
   - How to explore
   - How did we get the Bible?
   - The big picture

Part Two: The Old Testament

Part Three: The New Testament

Part Four: Who, Where, What