The Rise and Fall of the Bible

A professor of religion offers an “engrossing and excellent” look at how the Good Book has changed—and changed the world—through the ages ( Publishers Weekly , starred review).   In a lively journey from early Christianity to the present, this book explores how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and how the multibillion-dollar business that has brought us Biblezines and Manga Bibles is selling down the Book’s sacred capital.   Showing us how a single official text was creat