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The Cambridge History of the Bible: 1. From the Beginnings to Jerome (1970) is a volume edited by Peter R. Ackroyd.

Abstract

"The Cambridge History treats the Bible as a central document of Western civilization, a source of exegesis and of doctrine, an influence on education, on the growth of scholarship, on art and literature, as well as on the liturgy and the life of the Christian church and its members ... Volume 1 concerns the earliest period down to Jerome and takes as its central theme the process by which the books of both Testaments came into being and emerged as a canon of scripture, and the use of canonical writings in the early church ... Each chapter is written by a scholar and expert on the subject, who summarizes existing knowledge and, in many cases, advances it by reporting his own research."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.

Contents

• v. 1. From the beginnings to Jerome / edited by P.R. Ackroyd (1970)
• v. 2. The West from the fathers to the Reformation / edited by G.W.H. Lampe (1969)
• v. 3. The West, from the Reformation to the present day / edited by S.L. Greenslade (1963)

External links

• [ Google Books]