Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-187) and indexes
Introduction -- The offensiveness of scripture -- Part I. Making sense of the Bible. The beginnings of the Bible -- Biblical nonsense -- Part II. The resistant Bible. Religion against the Bible -- The Bible in the metropolis -- Part III. The Bible as guidebook. Biblical tourism : Eça de Queiros and Mark Twain in Palestine -- The book of Dave versus the Bible -- Part IV. The Bible, music and nationalism. When Jesus was (nearly) a Scot -- Jonah in Estonia, Joseph in Latvia -- Brucknerian transpositions -- Part V. Animal Bible. The lion king -- Conversations with donkeys -- Part VI. The sporting Bible. Wrestling the Bible -- The NASCAR Bible -- Part VII. The survival of the Bible. Dispelling delusions : Dawkins, Dennett and biblical studies
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Bible-- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible-- Influence
Bible-- Use
Popular culture-- Religious aspects-- Christianity