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The Bible: A History

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This fascinating new seven-part series presents revealing and personal explorations of the world's most important, widespread and revolutionary text - the Bible.  From its first origins, to the American presidential inauguration, from Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic to the current 2,400 different translations, this is the story of most influential text ever produced.

The 78 books of the Bible cover an incredible range of subjects; from the story of Creation itself to the creation of the Jewish Promised Land, from the arcane dietary proscriptions of Leviticus and Deuteronomy to the epic sagas and battles in Kings and Judges, from the Gospels' biographies of Jesus to the epistles of St. Paul and the apocalyptic visions of Revelations. We explore the origins, ideas and influence of seven sections of the Scriptures; tracing how they came into existence and how they have formed the world we live in today.