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The Bible
Also known as Holy Bible, Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Scripture
Synopsis
A library bound as one book: law, lyric, prophecy, gospel, and letter, written across many centuries of the ancient Near East and the early Mediterranean. However a reader meets it — as scripture, as literature, or as the text later novels keep answering — it remains the most widely distributed book ever printed.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- c. 1200 BCE – 2nd century CE
- Language
- Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
- Country
- Ancient Near East
- Form
- Religious text
- Genre
- Religious, History
- Audience
- All ages
- Era
- Ancient
- Movement
- Scripture
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 1,200 pages
- Reported copies
- Over 5 billion copies, by the usual Guinness estimate
- Kind
- Nonfiction
Themes
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