Rob Bell. (2017). What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything. HarperCollins.

Rob Bell. 2017. What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything. HarperCollins.

Rob Bell, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything. HarperCollins, 2017.

Rob Bell. What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything. HarperCollins, 2017.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{5CBC3BF5-A66C-4ADA-BAD3-7DAC4220345D}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{5CBC3BF5-A66C-4ADA-BAD3-7DAC4220345D}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/5CB/C3B/F5/{5CBC3BF5-A66C-4ADA-BAD3-7DAC4220345D}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/5CB/C3B/F5/{5CBC3BF5-A66C-4ADA-BAD3-7DAC4220345D}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780062194282
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780062194282
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780062194275

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Rob Bell

isOwnedByCollections

False

title

What Is the Bible?

dateAdded

2017-06-17T04:05:01.417Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=141&titleID=2926228
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

What Is the Bible How an Ancient Library of Poems Letters and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

crossRefId

2926228

subtitle

How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

id

5CBC3BF5-A66C-4ADA-BAD3-7DAC4220345D

starRating

4.2

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: WhatIstheBible_9780062194282_2926228
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 821386
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780062194282
   • rights:
     1. • type: Copying
        • value: 0
     2. • type: Printing
        • value: 0
     3. • type: Lending
        • value: 0
     4. • type: ReadAloud
        • value: 1
     5. • type: ExpirationRights
        • value: 0
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
   • onSaleDate: 5/16/2017
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5cbc3bf5-a66c-4ada-bad3-7dac4220345d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: WhatIstheBible_9780062194282_2926228
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 548617
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780062194282
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 5/16/2017
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5cbc3bf5-a66c-4ada-bad3-7dac4220345d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Bell, Rob
   • bioText:

     Rob Bell is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and spiritual teacher. His books include Love Wins, How to Be Here, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, Velvet Elvis, The Zimzum of Love, Sex God, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, and Drops Like Stars. He hosts the weekly podcast The Robcast, which was named by iTunes as one of the best of 2015. He was profiled in The New Yorker and in TIME Magazine as one of 2011's hundred most influential people. He and his wife, Kristen, have three children and live in Los Angeles.

   • name: Rob Bell

imprint

HarperOne

publishDate

2017-05-16T00:00:00-04:00

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

What Is the Bible?

fullDescription

Instant New York Times Bestseller

Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep into the Bible to show how it is more revelatory, revolutionary, and relevant than we ever imagined—and offers a cogent argument for why we need to look at it in a fresh, new way.

In Love Wins, Rob Bell confronted the troubling questions that many people of faith were afraid to ask about heaven, hell, fate, and faith. Using the same inspired, inquisitive approach, he now turns to our most sacred book, the Bible. What Is the Bible? provides insights and answers that make clear why the Bible is so revered and what makes it truly inspiring and essential to our lives.

Rob takes us deep into actual passages to reveal the humanity behind the Scriptures. You cannot get to the holy without going through the human, Rob tells us. When considering a passage, we shouldn't ask "Why did God say . . .?" To get to the heart of the Bible's meaning, we should be asking: "What's the story that's unfolding here and why did people find it important to tell it? What was it that moved them to record these words? What was happening in the world at that time? What does this passage/story/poem/verse/book tell us about how people understood who they were and who God was at that time?" In asking these questions, Rob goes beyond the one-dimensional question of "is it true?" to reveal the Bible's authentic transformative power.

Rob addresses the concerns of all those who see the Bible as God's Word but are troubled by the ethical dilemmas, errors, and inconsistencies in Scripture. With What Is the Bible?, he recaptures the Good Book's magic and reaffirms its power and inspiration to shape and inspire our lives today.

reviews

1. • premium: False
   • source: Relevant
   • content:

     "Rob Bell is at it again. Love him or loathe him, the theological provacateur says it's time to rethink the Bible." — Relevant

     "With pastoral prodding, Rob Bell helps us see that scripture is a masterpiece of penetrating subtleties crafted by ancient authors with a transformative vision for humanity. Bell reminds us that the Bible is neither simple nor mundane, but worthy of our full attention." — Peter Enns, author of The Sin of Certainty and host of The Bible For Normal People podcast

2. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     May 1, 2017
     Bell (Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived), a sometimes controversial but undeniably popular author, speaker, and pastor, has written an introduction to the Bible that is one part biblical theology and interpretational principles and one part spiritual travelogue. Intermixing exegetical wisdom with reflections on life, spirituality, and the universe’s abundance of divine prompts and promises, Bell shares why and how readers might encounter the Bible in a whole new way by considering the relevance of its lessons to daily life as well as to larger life decisions. Bell is an expert in reading Scripture and known for cracking open the context, language, and background of both familiar and obscure Bible stories, but his work can still come off as shallow and glib. Despite not being an in-depth theological treatise, this popular presentation prompts readers to see the Bible as a thoroughly human production meant to elicit questions and connection rather than provide firm answers or theological foes.

popularity

1105

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/5cbc3bf5-a66c-4ada-bad3-7dac4220345d/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

5cbc3bf5-a66c-4ada-bad3-7dac4220345d

starRating

4.2

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{5CBC3BF5-A66C-4ADA-BAD3-7DAC4220345D}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{5CBC3BF5-A66C-4ADA-BAD3-7DAC4220345D}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/5CB/C3B/F5/{5CBC3BF5-A66C-4ADA-BAD3-7DAC4220345D}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/5CB/C3B/F5/{5CBC3BF5-A66C-4ADA-BAD3-7DAC4220345D}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Christian Nonfiction
2. • value: Religion & Spirituality
3. • value: Nonfiction

publishDateText

05/16/2017

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780062194275

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

Instant New York Times Bestseller

Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep into the Bible to show how it is more revelatory, revolutionary, and relevant than we ever imagined—and offers a cogent argument for why we need to look at it in a fresh, new way.

In Love Wins, Rob Bell confronted the troubling questions that many people of faith were afraid to ask about heaven, hell, fate, and faith. Using the same inspired, inquisitive approach, he now turns to our most sacred book, the Bible. What Is the Bible? provides insights and answers that make clear why the Bible is so revered and what makes it truly inspiring and essential to our lives.

Rob takes us deep into actual passages to reveal the humanity behind the Scriptures. You cannot get to the holy without going through the human, Rob tells us. When considering a passage, we shouldn't ask "Why did God say . . .?" To get to the...

sortTitle

What Is the Bible How an Ancient Library of Poems Letters and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

crossRefId

2926228

subtitle

How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

publisher

HarperCollins

bisacCodes

1. • code: REL006630
   • description: Religion / Biblical Studies / History & Culture
2. • code: REL012120
   • description: RELIGION / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth
3. • code: REL067080
   • description: Religion / Christian Theology / History