Product Description

A 'lightning tour' of the Bible in words and cartoon pictures for those who want an accessible and lighthearted introduction; For all who find the Bible a bit formidable, a bit too difficult to get into, The Bible from Scratch could be just what's needed. It offers a lightning sketch of the Bible using easy-to-follow graphics and explains clearly and simply the essential meaning of every Bible book. It provides helpful hints for understanding what each biblical writer was aiming to get across to his readers. And it introduces all the famous people and events in the Bible story. Lively, witty, entertaining, it's the ideal starting point for all who want to get better acquainted with the world's bestselling book, but don't know where to start.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #146550 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Simon Jenkins is an author, editor and illustrator. His previous publications include Bible Mapbook (Lion, 1985) and Windows into Heaven: The Icons and Spirituality of Russia (Lion, 1998). He is also an editor of the lively and often controversial website, www.ship-of-fools.com.

Customer Reviews

enLIGHTening
I thouroughly enjoyed this book. It had just the right amount of humourand irreverence to keep we wanting to come back and yet at times proved tobe profound and revealing. The author doesn't get bogged down in dogma ortheological debate and so his bible becomes relevent and meaningful to me. A great way in to the good book.

Helpful overview
As a young Christian I found this book really useful as a general overview. It's a very helpful and interesting read helping you get to grips with the historical background and main themes that run through the individual books comprising the Bible. I would highly recommend it to other peeps to read ~alongside~ your Bible especially because of the fantastic humour and cartoons :D

superb
highly highly recommend this, i have real probs with understanding the OT and this helped more than i can say...i am currently reading another book on the OT and it's so heavy and dry i can only stand one chapter at a time, yet it says basically nothing different from this which is really funny and cute A* top banana