Essential Bible References - The fascinating and fully illustrated story of how the world's most popular book has survived and come down to us today

How has the Bible come down to us? Who wrote it? Why two Testaments? In what language was the Bible originally written? Who decided which books should be included in our Bible? Why have people been executed for translating the Bible? Haw the Bible been translated into every language?

These fascinating questions - and many more - are answered in this introduction to the intriguing story of how the bible has come down to us through the tumultuous years of history.

The Story of the Bible is fully illustrated in colour throughout with artists' drawing, photographs, maps and charts