In doing so Asimov illuminates the Bible's many obscure and mysterious passages, producing a valuable text for anyone interested in religion and history. They included maps by the artist Rafael Palacios. Isaac Asimov Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Situating the writers of the various books of the Bible in time and space, Asimov gives its writings context and also explains how that context has morphed with time. Asimov's Guide to The Bible | | ISBN: 9780517209776 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. He combined them into a single 1296-page volume in 1981. It also assumes a level of familiarity that Harrison did not expect from his readers (and did not find among his students). Situating the writers of the various books of the Bible in time and space, Asimov gives its writings context and also explains how that context has morphed with time. Asimov’s Guide to the Bible features a number of maps and it goes through the books of the Bible in the order of the benchmark bible the King James Version and explains the historical and geographical setting of each one, including the political and historical influences that affected it, as well as biographical information about the main characters. Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The New Testament | Asimov, Isaac | ISBN: 9780380010318 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Asimov's Guide to the Bible is not a book to be read in continuum but an indispensable companion to any journey through the Bible. While some of his conclusions and "qualified speculations" may challenge certain traditional assumptions (for …

The Bible may not be as widely-read as Asimov thought, even if sales suggest otherwise. Asimov's Guide To The Bible The Old And New Testaments ( 2 Vols.)
Asimov’s Guide to the Bible is a huge fact-based reference, … Asimov's Guide to the Bible is a work by Isaac Asimov that was first published in two volumes in 1968 and 1969, covering the Old Testament and the New Testament (including the Catholic Old Testament, or deuterocanonical, books (See Catholic Bible) and the Eastern Orthodox Old Testament books, or anagignoskomena, along with the Fourth Book of Ezra), respectively. Asimov's Guide to the Bible is not a book to be read in continuum but an indispensable companion to any journey through the Bible. While some of his conclusions and "qualified speculations" may challenge certain traditional … Yet he does not expect that his readers will know “ancient … In "Asimov's Guide to the Bible" the noted author Isaac Asimov explores the historical, geographical, and biographical aspects of the events described in the Old and New Testaments. Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, originally published in two volumes in 1968-69, then reprinted as one in 1981, seeks to demystify the text.