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Don't know much about the Bible, everything you need to know about the Good Book but never learned, Kenneth C. Davis

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-505) and index

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Don't know much about the Bible

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Kenneth C. Davis

everything you need to know about the Good Book but never learned

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

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