The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture

Konrad Schmid · Jens Schröter

Sep 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Tom Parks

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The Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process, one that begins in the tenth century BCE. In this revelatory account, a world-renowned scholar of Hebrew scripture joins a foremost authority on the New Testament to write a new biography of the Book of Books, reconstructing Jewish and Christian scriptural histories, as well as the underappreciated contest between them, from which the Bible arose. Recent scholarship has overturned popular assumptions about Israel's past, suggesting, for instance, that the five books of the Torah were written not by Moses but during the reign of Josiah centuries later. The sources of the Gospels are also under scrutiny. Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter reveal the long, transformative journeys of these and other texts en route to inclusion in the holy books. The New Testament, the authors show, did not develop in the wake of an Old Testament set in stone. Rather the two evolved in parallel, in conversation with each other, ensuring a continuing mutual influence of Jewish and Christian traditions. Indeed, Schmid and Schröter argue that Judaism may not have survived had it not been reshaped in competition with early Christianity. The Making of the Bible is the most comprehensive history yet told of the world's best-known literature, revealing its buried lessons and secrets.

About the author

Konrad Schmid is professor of Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism at the University of Zurich and president of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament. He is the author of A Historical Theology of the Hebrew Bible and coauthor of The Making of the Bible with Jens Schröter.

Jens Schröter is professor of New Testament and ancient Christian apocrypha at Humboldt University in Berlin. Schröter is the author of Jesus of Nazareth: Jew from Galilee, Savior of the World, and coauthor of The Making of the Bible with Konrad Schmid.

Since recording his first book for the Kansas Audio Reader Network in 1985, Tom Parks has enjoyed giving voice to stories. He has been nominated for Audie Awards and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards, and reviewers have described his performances as "conversational," "energetic," and "sincere."

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