The Bible gathers sacred writings by many authors over centuries, tracing creation, covenant, exile, and redemption. From Israel’s laws and histories to the life of Jesus and the early church, it explores faith, justice, sin, and hope. Through narrative, poetry, prophecy, and letters, it has shaped worship, morality, and culture across the world, remaining a foundational work about God, humanity, and the search for meaning.
Date: 397 (Various)
Length: ~1200 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~5.740.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Nonfiction, Classics
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"In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book." — Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
"I put a New Testament among your books... because it is the best book that ever was or will be known in the world, and because it teaches you the best lessons by which any human creature who tries to be truthful and faithful to duty can possibly be guided" — Charles Dickens, author of Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities
"England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England" — Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables
"We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever" — Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist, author of Principia Mathematica
"Ecclesiastes, in the 1611 translation, is one of the glories of English literature... The whole King James Bible is littered with literary allusions, almost as many as Shakespeare" — Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion, writing in The Guardian
"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education" — Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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