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How We Got the Bible
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A classic for more than forty years, How We Got the Bible provides well-researched, accessible answers to many questions like these. Learn about the first materials used to write down the words of Scripture. Uncover the facts of some of history's most fascinating archaeological discoveries. Travel through history, from Jerome to Tyndale and beyond, as Neil R. Lightfoot discusses the origin, transmission, and translation of the Bible.
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A classic for more than forty years, How We Got the Bible provides wellresearched, accessible answers to many questions like these. Learn about the first materials used to write down the words of Scripture. Uncover the facts of some of history's most fascinating archaeological discoveries. Travel through history, from Jerome to Tyndale and beyond, as Neil R. Lightfoot discusses the origin, transmission, and translation of the Bible.
Illustrations and review questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal for either individual or group study. Concise and engaging, How We Got the Bible is a trusted resource for anyone who wants to know the story behind the most widely read book of all time.
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Pages 224
Dimensions: Length: 0.5" Width: 6" Height: 9.5"
Weight: 0.7 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jun 1, 2010
Publisher Baker Publishing Group
ISBN 0801072611
EAN 9780801072611
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 | How We Got the Bible - Book Nov 6, 2009 |
| "How We Got the Bible" by Neil Lightfoot, is an excellent overview of the origins of our present day Bible. Concise, readable, and well-researched; good introduction material for student and layman. If you like history, and if you like the Bible, you will enjoy this book. | | | | Extremely helpful Sep 4, 2009 |
| We used this in a 13 week study on Sunday mornings. The content was very helpful in bringing us to a full understanding that the Bible we have today went through many stages to come to where it is today. This was a study I have never pursued but am thankful this came to my life. It really gave me a better appreciation for what the Holy Spirit was and still is able to accomplish. | | | | Tops in Books on the Origin of the Bible Feb 20, 2009 |
| I can't say enough about this concisely written, well-researched little book on the origin of our Holy Bible. It is written with the layman at heart, yet contains vital information that is scholarly in its source, yet is easy-to-read and appreciate. It is perhaps one of the best books of this type on the market. I strongly recommend it to every inquisitive student of the Bible who wants to learn the history of this most remarkable of all books. | | |  | Author certainly had agenda when writing this Nov 8, 2008 |
| This is probably the least objective account of the derivation of the Biblical texts that I have read. If you are looking for an argument for the validity and perfection of the Christian Canon, then this is the book for you. If, however, you prefer an actual scholarly account of the derivation of the Bible, you may want to look further. The author does not even so much as mention the Nicene Creed, which was probably the single most important event in the creation of the Christian Canon. He also mentions only the oddities existing in the non-canonical texts and fails to mention all of the striking similarities that would argue their validity. I congratulate Lightfoot on his completely biased and selective account of the history of the Bible. | | | | Factual Errors and Misleading Language Sep 22, 2008 |
Lightfoot does a good to excellent job introducing the original MSS of Scripture, the origins of the text, and an overview of the accuracy of the Bible (until the mid-20th century).
However, Lightfoot does not present the history of the Vulgate in a strait-forward manner. On p. 42, he claims that Jerome failed to produce a masterpiece because he merely revised the Old Latin translation (which was not very accurate). But this strains the truth, and on p. 72, Lightfoot admits that Jerome spent many years translating the OT from the original Hebrew. On p. 43 he accuses the Church of preserving the Vulgate better than the original Greek (the NT), but admits that Jerome made his NT translation directly from the Septuagint (p. 24). Lightfoot insists that Protestant Bibles are more valid precisely because they are translated directly from the Septuagint, something he denies of the Catholic Bible. Did he write these pages in two separate decades? He goes on to say that the Vulgate, despite its shortcomings, was wrongly made the "official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church," and in this he is mistaken.
Lightfoot asserts that a book attains canonicity by its "general acceptance" as Scripture. Ignoring that one billion Catholics accept 1 and 2 Maccabees as Scripture. He says that no Church or group bestowed on any book of the Bible its infallibility. Okay, fine. But this is rarely contested. In the very next sentence Lightfoot substitutes the word "infallibility" for "canon," claiming that no Church can make a book canonical (he himself distinguishes between the meanings of these words). How then does a book become canonical? By its "general acceptance" of course. Not by Church council? No. Even though Martin Luther took this license himself? No. Even though Lightfoot himself does so when he denies the canonicity of certain portions of the Bible in this very book? Portions of scripture that can be found in all but a few very ancient MSS of the Bible all the way up to the present? Still no. It was "wrong" for 1500 years, but now it's back on track?
If Lightfoot cannot accept the importance of the Catholic Church and the historic Church councils in the formation of the canon and the preservation of Scripture then on what authority does he teach about the Bible? Apparently on his own authority, and that is not good enough. | | | Write your own review about How We Got the Bible
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