This biography of the Bible traces its story to reveal it as a complex and contradictory document created by scores of people over hundred of years. It explores the different ways in which the sixty-six books that make the Bible are understood, and identifies the social needs that they answer. Will permanently alter your understanding of the Bible. An extraordinary book.... This is not an obituary for the Bible, but a biography of a book that still lives, breathes and can preach the most essential of messages.