The Bible: A Biography

[Bekah]

Karen Armstrong  writes well researched, carefully thought out and  
wonderfully intelligent histories of religion.  She's a fine author  
although a bit on the dry side.   I've read

The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions  
(2006)
The Spiral Staircase (2004)
Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (1996)

I'm very curious to read The Bible: A Biography but also A History of  
God and maybe Muhammed.

If pushed,  I'd say her sympathies are with Islam although she was  
born, raised and educated Catholic,  an ex-nun in fact - or novice  
(that story is in The Spiral Staircase).

Bekah


On Feb 8, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Henry Musikar wrote:

> Thanks for the tip'o the hat, Dave.  Looks really good.  I'm gonna  
> buy it from (ahem) at Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/bible-a-biography
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Monroe
> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 6:50 PM
> To: pynchon -l
>
> Armstrong, Karen.  The Bible: A Biography.  New York: Grove, 2007.
>
> http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?GroveProc~book~5241
>
> See esp. Ch. 5, "Midrash" ...
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=nHuVPKRUGNUC
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