Description Jaroslav Pelikan, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished historians of our day, now provides a clear and engaging account of the Bible\'s journey from oral narrative to Hebrew and Greek text to today\'s countless editions.
He has received the Thomas Jefferson Medal of the National Endowment for the Humanities and an honorary degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America as well as forty-one other honorary degrees..
His many books include the five-volume The Christian Tradition, Jesus Through the Centuries, and Mary Through the Centuries.
About the author Jaroslav Pelikan is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Whose Bible Is It? is a triumph of scholarship that is also a pleasure to read.
Pelikan explores the evolution of the Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic versions and the development of the printing press and its effect on the Reformation, the translation into modern languages, and varying schools of critical scholarship.
Description Jaroslav Pelikan, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished historians of our day, now provides a clear and engaging account of the Bible\'s journey from oral narrative to Hebrew and Greek text to today\'s countless editions
