Don't Know Much About the Bible - Kenneth C. Davis [206]
Zilpah
Zimri
Zionism
Zipporah
Zoroaster (Zarathustra)
Zoser
About the Author
Kenneth C. Davis is the author of the Don’t Know Much About® series, which has grown to include a new line of children’s books. He frequently appears on national television and radio, and is a contributing editor at USA Weekend. He lives in New York City and Vermont with his wife and two children.
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Credits
Cover design By Eric Fuentecilla
Cover illustrations: background by Rafaello Sanzio/FPG/PIX; Foreground © 2000 PIX/FPG
Copyright
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quoted in Don’t Know Much About® the Bible is primarily drawn from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and is used by permission.
“Don’t Know Much About”® is a registered trademark of Kenneth C. Davis.
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT® THE BIBLE. Copyright © 1998 by Kenneth C. Davis. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyrigh t Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © JUNE 2004 ISBN: 9780061795596
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
PART ONE: Whose Bible is it Anyway?
PART TWO: The Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament
Two Creations... NoApple (Genesis)
Let My People Go (Exodus)
Forty Years on the Road (Leviticus,Numbers,Deuteronomy)
Over the River (Joshua)
Why, Why, Why, Delilah?(Judges,Ruth)
Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown...Part 1 (1&2Samuel)
Uneasy Lies the Head...Part 2 (1&2Kings,1&2Chronicles,Lamentations)
Eight Men Out(The Pre-Exile Prophets)
Amos
Hosea
Isaiah
Michah
Nahum
Zephaniah
Habakuk
Jermiah
You Can Go Home Again (Ezra,Nehemiah)
From Dry Bones to Fish Bellies (ThePost-ExileProphets)
Ezekiel
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
Obadiah
Joel
Jonah
A Godless Book (Esther)
The Devil Made me Do it (Job)
Out of the Mouths of Babes (Psalms)
Happy are those who Find Wisdom (Proverbs)
Nothing New Under the Sun (Ecclesiastes)
The Love Machine, Another Godless Book (Song of Solomon)
Hebrew 1-Lions 0 (Daniel)
Between the Books (The Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical Books)
PART THREE: The New Testament
The World According to Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)
Jesus is Coming Look Busy (Acts of the Apostles)
You Have Mail! (The Epistles of Paul)
The 'Pastoral Letters' (1 & 2 Timothy, Titus)
More Mail (The General Epistles)
Apocalypse Now? (Revelation)
Afterword: Whose God is it Anyway?
Appendix 1: The Ten Commandments
Appendix 2: The Twenty-third Psalm
Appendix 3: The Lord's Prayer
Appendix 4: The Prologue to John's Gospel
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Searchable Terms
About the Author
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher