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Article: Intimations of transcendence: Karen Armstrong pleads for a compassionate interpretation of the Bible.(The Bible: A Biography)(Book review)
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- Presbyterian Record
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- November 1, 2008
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The Bible: A Biography
Karen Armstrong
Atlantic Monthly Press
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John Vissers, principal of The Presbyterian College, Montreal, writing in the June Record, refers to a former colleague, who concluded that essentially two groups do most of the serious Bible reading: "Those of us who make it say whatever they want, and those of us who make it say nothing at all."
The jacket notes of Karen Armstrong's 2007 book, The Bible, estimated that more than six billion copies of the Bible have been sold over the past 200 years in more than 2,000 languages. Readers are also told that the contents of Armstrong's work ...