{"id":3829,"date":"2025-07-30T00:49:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:49:05","slug":"book-log-a-history-of-the-bible-the-book-and-its-faiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=3829","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths<\/em> by John Barton [Kindle\/Audible]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I &#8220;read&#8221; most of this book listening to Audible, though I wish I had had the opportunity to read it on the Kindle.  I don&#8217;t absorb as much audibly.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is a fascinating book&#8230; very clear presentation of the state of the known history of the composition of the bible(s).  I may go back and read a few chapters again, to catch some bits I missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been on a kick to learn about this history for a while, after I started seeing the Data over Dogma guy on Tiktok and then on podcast.  They clever ways they can tease out the history through forensic and linguistic analysis is very cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by John Barton [Kindle\/Audible] I &#8220;read&#8221; most of this book listening to Audible, though I wish I had had the opportunity to read it on the Kindle. I don&#8217;t absorb &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=3829\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[512,481,513,510],"tags":[494,526],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-book-log","category-books","category-kindle","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}