everything you need to know about the Good Book but never learned /
Kenneth C. Davis.
New York :
PerfectBound,
2005.
Title from eBook information screen.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-505) and index.
Whose Bible is it anyway? -- Hebrew scriptures or Old Testament -- Two creations-no apple (Genesis) -- Let My people go (Exodus) -- Forty years on the road (Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) -- Over the river (Joshua) -- Why, why, why, Delilah? (Judges, Ruth) -- Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown; part 1 (1 & 2 Samuel) -- Uneasy lies the head; part 2 (1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Lamentations) -- Eight men out (Pre-exile prophets): Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Nahum, Zephaniah, Habakkuk, Jeremiah -- You can go home again (Ezra, Nehemiah) -- From dry bones to fish bellies (Post-exile prophets): Ezekiel, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Obadiah, Joel, Jonah -- Godless book (Esther) -- Devil made me do it (Job) -- Out of the mouths of babes (Psalms) -- Happy are those who find wisdom (Proverbs) -- Nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes) -- Love machine, another godless book (Song of Solomon) -- Hebrew 1 -- Lions 0 (Daniel) -- Between the books (Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical books) -- New Testament -- World according to Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) -- Jesus is coming -- look busy (Acts of the Apostles) -- You have mail! (Epistles of Paul) -- "Pastoral letters" (1 & 2 Timothy, Titus) -- More mail (general Epistles) -- Apocalypse now? (Revelation) -- Whose God is it anyway? -- Twenty-third Psalm -- Lord's prayer -- Prologue to John's gospel.
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The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Don't Know Much About History" takes on the Bible, illuminating everything one needs to know about the "Good Book", but has never learned.
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