Historia de la Biblia / The Bible: A Biography

Karen Armstrong

Historia de la Biblia / The Bible: A Biography
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Debate
Published
20 October 2015
Pages
304
ISBN
9788499925271

Historia de la Biblia / The Bible: A Biography

Karen Armstrong

La historia del libro mas importante de todos los tiempos contada por Karen Armstrong, la mayor experta en religiones del mundo. La Biblia es el libro mas famoso del mundo. Traducido a mas de dos mil idiomas, se calcula que ha vendido mas de seis mil millones de ejemplares solo en los ultimos dos siglos. En esta excepcio nal cronica, Karen Armstrong sigue la creacion de la Biblia para revelar un texto complejo y contradictorio, escrito por docenas de personas a lo largo de cientos de anos. Armstrong comienza su analisis por los libros mas antiguos de la Biblia hebrea, en los que Dios aparecia indistintamente como Yahve y Elohim , para seguir con el desarrollo del Antiguo y del Nuevo Testamen to y sacar a relucir las distintas influencias que contribuyeron a dar forma a estos textos sagrados. Desde la practica judia de la Midras y el culto cristiano de Jesus hasta la influencia de las epistolas de san Pablo en la Reforma protestante y la manipulacion del imaginario del Apocalipsis por el fundamentalismo cristiano, Armstrong explora el contexto en que estos sesenta y seis libros han sido interpretados y explica las necesidades sociales que buscaban satisfacer. El resultado revela una obra paradojica y desconocida, y cambiara para siempre nuestra vision de la Biblia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world’s largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world’s most widely distributed book and its best-selling, with an estimated six billion copies sold in the last two hundred years. But the Bible is a complex work with a complicated and obscure history. Its contents have changed over the centuries, it has been transformed by translation and, through interpretation, has developed manifold meanings to various religions, denominations, and sects. In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, life, and afterlife of history’s most powerful book. Armstrong analyzes the social and political situation in which oral history turned into written scripture, how this all-pervasive scripture was collected into one work, and how it became accepted as Christianity’s sacred text, and how its interpretation changed over time. Armstrong’s history of the Bible is a brilliant, captivating book, crucial in an age of declining faith and rising fundamentalism.

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