Bible

The Bible: A Global History traces the path of the world's best-known and most influential book. For Christians, the Bible is inspired by God, yet its eternal words have always been passed along by fallible human hands. Bruce Gordon follows the book's journey around the world across more than two thousand years, showing how it has shaped changing beliefs and been shaped by them, as believers with very different needs have turned to it.

The divine voice may be one, but those who receive it are scattered and divided. Gordon finds them in desert monasteries and Chinese house churches, in Byzantine cathedrals and Guatemalan villages.

Global in scope, the book tells the story of this sacred text through its many human encounters. What emerges is not a fixed text but a living, dynamic cultural force.