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The story of the Bible [digital videodisc] / Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory University.

Chantilly, Va : Teaching Company, c2006.

Bible -- History.

Bible -- Versions.

Great courses (DVD). Religion.

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 128 pages ; 19 cm).

pt. 1. disc 1. Lectures 1-6. Telling the story of a book ; Making TaNaK ; Forms of Jewish scripture ; Birth of the Christian Bible ; Formation of Jewish and Christian canons ; Writing and copying manuscripts -- pt. 1. disc 2. Lectures 7-12. Imperial sponsorship and the Bible ; Texts and translations : the ancient east ; Old Latin and the Vulgate ; Other ancient versions ; Monasteries and manuscripts ; Interpretation within Judaism.

pt. 2. disc 3. Lectures 13-18. Interpretation in medieval Christianity ; The Renaissance, printing, and the Bible ; The Protestant Reformation and the Bible ; Translating the Bible into modern languages ; The first efforts at Englishing the Bible ; The King James Version -- pt. 2. disc 4. Lectures 19--24. The romance of manuscripts ; Searching for the critical text ; The historical-critical approach ; The Bible in contemporary Judaism ; Contemporary Christians and their Bibles ; The Bible's story continues.

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